x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:12:27 +0000 (12:12 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:26:24 +0000 (11:26 +0200)
commit0e3258753f8183c63bf68bd274d2cc7e71e5f402
tree98861c4788b8524c24e7bde9f49e55e0b4cd232a
parenta99f03428faa2e53cce17aec0d636de760ec281a
x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

Paul Menzel recently asked how to load microcode on a system and I realized
that we don't really have all the methods written down somewhere.

Do that, so people can go and look them up.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724101228.17326-3-bp@alien8.de
[ Fix whitespace noise in the new description. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt [deleted file]
Documentation/x86/microcode.txt [new file with mode: 0644]