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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/18/2012 07:38 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> 
> In this early phase, detecting vendor in initrd is much simpler code.
> Otherwise, detecting vendor by cpuid (and without cpuid) needs
> similar but different code as existing functions and coding would be
> awkward.
> 

I'm confused by this statement.  Getting the vendor from CPUID is a few
lines of code, and non-CPUID processors don't support microcode loading.

> Why name it ".hex" when you're loading binary data?  I suggest ".bin".  It
> is confusing to have .hex there, since you're not dealing with the Intel HEX
> format, nor anything text-like.

Actually I think we can also skip one level of indirection here... no
need to mention "microcode" twice.

kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel or GenuineIntel.bin seems good
enough... the idea here of course is that the string can come from CPUID.

	-hpa
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