Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/microcode: Improve parsing for ucode=

2020-01-28 Thread Jan Beulich
On 27.01.2020 20:34, Eslam Elnikety wrote: > On 23.01.20 11:26, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 22.01.2020 23:30, Eslam Elnikety wrote: >>> Decouple the microcode indexing mechanism when using GRUB to that >>> when using EFI. This allows us to avoid the "unspecified effect" of >>> using `` when booting vi

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/microcode: Improve parsing for ucode=

2020-01-27 Thread Eslam Elnikety
Thanks for getting the other patches in the series onto master, Jan. This is the only patch out of this series that did not make it through, so I keeping my comments here. On 23.01.20 11:26, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.01.2020 23:30, Eslam Elnikety wrote: Decouple the microcode indexing mechani

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/microcode: Improve parsing for ucode=

2020-01-23 Thread Jan Beulich
On 22.01.2020 23:30, Eslam Elnikety wrote: > Decouple the microcode indexing mechanism when using GRUB to that > when using EFI. This allows us to avoid the "unspecified effect" of > using `` when booting via EFI. Personally I'd prefer us to continue call this unspecified. It simply shouldn't be u

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/microcode: Improve parsing for ucode=

2020-01-22 Thread Eslam Elnikety
Decouple the microcode indexing mechanism when using GRUB to that when using EFI. This allows us to avoid the "unspecified effect" of using `` when booting via EFI. With that, Xen can explicitly ignore that option when using EFI. This is the only functinal change this commit introduces. Update the