On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:52:07AM -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > That doesn't mean that late loading isn't still useful.
If it weren't useful, it would've been gone a long time ago. No one is arguing whether it is useful or not. > Just as I can't know for sure that every future microcode update will be > safely late loadable, you can't know for sure that every future microcode > update won't be safely late loadable. Well, you know what can happen so good luck, I guess. > We do use other techniques as well particularly when it's not time > sensitive. So you reboot or not? Do you do reboot-similar techniques where you can potentially do early microcode loading too? > It very much makes it right because it's still a tool that can be used > safely in the right cases. Just because it can't be used 100% of the time > (even if it is close to that in practice) doesn't make it magically unsafe > either. As I said, good luck with that. It's not like you haven't been warned about what can happen. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette