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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/21/2012 01:52 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM
>> To: H. Peter Anvin
>> Cc: Yu, Fenghua; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas
>> Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav
>> Petkov; linux-kernel; x86
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define
>> interfaces for early load ucode
>>
>> 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.
> 
> That's ACPI override. I think the ACPI tables could be put in kernel/x86/acpi/.
> 

kernel/acpi... ACPI is not x86-specific.

	-hpa

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