Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces forearly load ucode

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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