Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jun 12 2012 - 16:27:50 EST


On 06/12/2012 12:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:07 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Nice, this is the initrd cpio thing, cool, no changes needed for the
>> bootloader. Ping me when you have something ready so that I can start
>> testing it here too.
>
> What do people like me do that don't use initrd like nonsense?
>

There is no requirement that you use an initramfs userspace. This is
just data loaded via the initramfs protocol rather than inventing a new one.

-hpa


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