Messages in this thread | | | From | "Yu, Fenghua" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:58:09 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@zytor.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:54 PM > To: Yu, Fenghua > Cc: Borislav Petkov; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas > Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav > Petkov; linux-kernel; x86 > Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define > interfaces for early load ucode > > On 08/21/2012 01:52 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@amd64.org] > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM > >> To: H. Peter Anvin > >> Cc: Yu, Fenghua; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas > >> Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; > Borislav > >> Petkov; linux-kernel; x86 > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define > >> interfaces for early load ucode > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:13:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>> I don't know what Borislav was suggesting with "BIOS overrides", is > >>> that another CPU-specific thing? > >> > >> Not CPU- but rather platform-specific. It is Thomas Renninger's > >> mechanism to override BIOS tables. > > > > That's ACPI override. I think the ACPI tables could be put in > kernel/x86/acpi/. > > > > kernel/acpi... ACPI is not x86-specific.
That's right.
Thanks.
-Fenghua
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