Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts."): > Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an > initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable > uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the > init

[Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Campbell
Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the initrd. Xen also supports loading the microcode cpio from any multiboot module, but for in order to allo