Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

2017-07-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:27:54AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > What about: "... microcode in (uncompressed) cpio format followed by the > (possibly compressed) initrd image", to clarify this distinction? Meh. > What about something more fancy, such as > iucode_tool -v /lib/firmware/in

Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

2017-07-17 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Thanks for the nice write-up! A few comments below: On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > new file mode 100644 > index ..6ab130c6ca45 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ > + The Linux Microcode Loader > + > +Autho

[PATCH] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

2017-07-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
From: Borislav Petkov Paul Menzel asked recently how to load microcode on a system and I realized that we don't really have all the methods written down somewhere. Do that, so people can go and look them up. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov --- Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt | 70 --