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SubjectRE: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode
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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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