Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:52:09 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode |
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On 08/21/2012 01:48 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. >
s/BIOS/ACPI/... Yes, so really it doesn't have any meaningful reason to live under the CPU vendor.
-hpa
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