From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:49:51 -0700
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The stickiest part of all of this is where to leave the microcode so the 
kernel can get to it way early.  We could use the linked list, but that 
would mean bootloader enabling; another idea was to stick it as a prefix 
to the initramfs identified by a signature.

	-hpa