Answer is easy: you're welcome to write a patch to add a command. Making
running this command a default is a separate discussion

Le sam. 29 juil. 2023, 08:54, Paul Menzel <pmen...@molgen.mpg.de> a écrit :

> Dear GRUB folks,
>
>
> On x86 microcode updates often are recommended to be applied to fix
> bugs. Just recently new microcode updates where published for AMD Zen 2
> processors to fix “Zenbleed” [1].
>
> Currently, these updates are shipped and applied by the firmware, and –
> mainly due to the proprietary and closed source x86 firmware ecosystem
> is slow to ship these updates and firmware updates are cumbersome to
> apply in this ecosystem – the operating systems like the Linux kernel
> [2] (but I believe also Microsoft Windows) also support to apply these
> updates.
>
> Should boot loaders be able to apply these updates, so these can be
> applied on systems for operating systems without such a feature?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1]: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html
> [2]: https://docs.kernel.org/arch/x86/microcode.html
>
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