On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Raj, Ashok wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:16:00PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Now #1 is actually a sensible and feasible solution which can be pulled off > > in a reasonably short time frame, avoids all the bound to be ugly and > > failure laden attempts of fixing late loading completely and provides a > > usable and safe solution for joe user, jack admin and the super experts at > > big-cloud corporate. > > > > That is not requiring any new format of microcode payload, as this can be > > nicely done as a metadata package which comes with the microcode > > payload. So you get the following backwards compatible states: > > > > Kernel metadata result > > > > old don't care refuse late load > > > > new No refuse late load > > > > new Yes decide based on metadata > > > > Thoughts? > > This is 100% in line with what we proposed...
So what it hindering you to implement that? ucode teams whining about the little bit of extra work? Thanks, tglx