Re: [RFC 05/10] x86/speculation: Add basic IBRS support infrastructure

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 03:56:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Also, blacklisting microcode for early loading will become an ugly dance
> so I'd like to avoid it if possible.
> 
> Thus, it would be much much easier if dracut/initrd creation thing
> already filters those blacklisted blobs by looking at the revision in
> the header. Which is much easier.

That wouldn't be enough; AFAIU there's people with this stuff already
flashed in their BIOS. So the kernel needs to deal with it one way or
another.



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