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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 5ad92419be19..5a0a752f3ddd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1330,8 +1330,16 @@ config MICROCODE_AMD processors will be enabled. config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE - def_bool y + bool "Ancient loading interface (DEPRECATED)" + default n depends on MICROCODE + ---help--- + DO NOT USE THIS! This is the ancient /dev/cpu/microcode interface + which was used by userspace tools like iucode_tool and microcode.ctl. + It is inadequate because it runs too late to be able to properly + load microcode on a machine and it needs special tools. Instead, you + should've switched to the early loading method with the initrd or + builtin microcode by now: Documentation/x86/microcode.txt config X86_MSR tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support" |
