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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:57:41 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:26:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > which makes me wonder whether we still need that OLD INTERFACE. > > Henrique, any thoughts here? > > Well, there are distros out there that only have microcode.ctl, so you > should give them _some_ advanced warning. Ok, I think Fedora was one of them. But yeah, the advanced warning is a good idea. > As far as I am concerned you can simply deprecate /dev/cpu/microcode for, > say, two kernel releases, and then delete it. Cool, will do that. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach GM: Alberto Bozzo Reg: Dornach, Landkreis Muenchen HRB Nr. 43632 WEEE Registernr: 129 19551 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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