linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode

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Message-ID: <5033F4F9.4090608@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:52:09 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for
 early load ucode

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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