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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2012-09-11 12:34:07 +0200
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docs: document "ucode=" hypervisor command line option
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> xen-unstable changeset: 25841:7d770de90b7f xen-unstable date: Mon Sep 10 10:13:56 UTC 2012
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@@ -785,6 +785,19 @@ pages) must also be specified via the tbuf\_size parameter.
> `= unstable | skewed`
### ucode
+> `= <integer>`
+
+Specify the CPU microcode update blob module index. When positive, this
+specifies the n-th module (in the GrUB entry, zero based) to be used
+for updating CPU micrcode. When negative, counting starts at the end of
+the modules in the GrUB entry (so with the blob commonly being last,
+one could specify `ucode=-1`). Note that the value of zero is not valid
+here (entry zero, i.e. the first module, is always the Dom0 kernel
+image). Note further that use of this option has an unspecified effect
+when used with xen.efi (there the concept of modules doesn't exist, and
+the blob gets specified via the `ucode=<filename>` config file/section
+entry; see [EFI configuration file description](efi.html)).
+
### unrestricted\_guest
> `= <boolean>`