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SubjectRE: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@amd64.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:39 AM
> To: Yu, Fenghua
> Cc: H Peter Anvin; Ingo Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K;
> Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav Petkov; linux-kernel; x86
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > Documentation/x86/earlyucode.txt | 43 +++
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 22 ++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/cpio.h | 10 +
> > arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 23 ++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h | 103 +++++++
> > arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 3 +
> > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 6 +
> > arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 6 +
> > arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 7 +-
> > arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c | 74 +++++
> > arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 185 +------------
> > arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c | 482
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_lib.c | 163 +++++++++++
>
> One more thing:
>
> This screams for adding a directory called "microcode" in the kernel
> sources and moving all the microcode-related files there. IOW:
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> ...
>
> And yes, they should be under "cpu" too.

That's right.

Thanks.

-Fenghua


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