docs: document "ucode=" hypervisor command line option Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown @@ -785,6 +785,19 @@ Specify the per-cpu trace buffer size in > `= unstable | skewed` ### ucode +> `= ` + +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=` config file/section +entry; see [EFI configuration file description](efi.html)). + ### unrestricted\_guest > `= `