On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:22:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 2. fixed per-core (errors in every core but the BSP, and updates every core > > at once) -- should be in -stable soon enough. > > The "fixed per-core ABI" makes the kernel refuse the reload command on every > core but the BSP, and changes the behaviour of a reload command to the BSP > to "reload every core". The BSP was chosen, because that's the one core you > are not allowed to offline. What happens in multi socket systems? If all cores of a secondary processor are offline, will the kernel just do a firmware load when one of them gets reactivated? > That said, during boot these sysfs interfaces are only used when running a > custom-built kernel with a built-in microcode driver. The Debian kernel > doesn't need it, as a system-wide reload is triggered when the microcode > module is loaded by the initramfs. Well, it's also done in the postinst. I unblocked amd64-microcode nevertheless. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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