Re: [PATCH 03/13] x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of last arg to load_ucode_intel_bsp()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:21:04PM +0100, Quentin Casasnovas wrote:
> Going further, could you not even make uci a static global variable and
> have collect_cpu_info_early() called only _once_ to fill the information
> in, then you can remove the uci argument from all the other functions as
> well?  Just a suggestion anyway.

Yeah, I could but this is not on a fast path and we want to,
theoretically at least, support mixed revision microcode loading
where the BSP and APs have different revisions. Thus the separate
collect_cpu_info_early() calls.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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