Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] x86/microcode: Refactor platform ID enumeration into a helper

[Pawan Gupta]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 10:28:13PM -0800, Sohil Mehta wrote:
> On 3/4/2026 5:38 PM, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 10:10:18AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> >> Also note that the PII is weird. It does not really have a platform
> >> ID because it doesn't even have the MSR. Just consider it to be
> >> platform ID 0. Instead of saying >=PII, say <=PII. The PII is the
> > 				     ^
> > 				     I think you meant PIII here?
> > 
> 
> What Dave has here is correct. You can blame me for the confusion.
> Family 6, model 5 is DESCHUTES but Pentium II and not III.
> 
> I incorrectly named it INTEL_PENTIUM_III_DESCHUTES in commit
> 7e6b0a2e4152 ("x86/microcode: Update the Intel processor flag scan
> check"). It should have been named INTEL_PENTIUM_II_DESCHUTES.
> 
> Anyway, there are no other users of this. So after this series merges
> I'll send a cleanup patch deleting the #define completely.

Ohk, thanks for the clarification.