RE: [patch-2.4.0-test1-ac11] small update to microcode driver.

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 08:43:33 EST


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:

> > This is a tidy-up change that makes the driver more
> > informative about the
> > reasons no microcode was actually updated (wrong family or no matching
> > chunk found).
>
> Hi Tigran,
>
> Now that we have access to MSRs from userspace, is there any reason
> this could not be done better there ?
>

yes, there is - the lack of ability to bind a userspace process to a CPU
is the main reason why I implemented it differently from the other
"classical" implementations.

Regards,
Tigran

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