Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:18:57 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location |
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On 01/14/2014 10:58 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:10:28AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Quite frankly I would be much happier if we didn't stash so much under >> arch/x86/kernel/cpu ... quite frankly it feels like almost *anything* >> could go under there. The microcode code, for example, could go under >> its own subtree. > > Yeah, about the microcode, shouldn't it be under kernel/cpu/? My train > of thought is: because it is cpu-related functionality, it logically > belongs there.
arch/x86/cpu/microcode seems clean. I'm wondering if what is mostly currently in arch/x86/kernel/cpu should be mostly in something like arch/x86/cpu/init.
-hpa
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