[RFC][PATCH 0/4] x86/cpu: Remove duplicate microcode version matching infrastructure

[Dave Hansen]

x86 has generic CPU matching infrastructure. This lets you build
tables of CPUs with some property.  It's mostly used for enumerating
model-specific features, but it is quite a bit more flexible than
that. In includes a facility to match steppings and microcode
versions. This generic infrastructure is built around 'struct
x86_cpu_id'.

There is a less generic, parallel CPU matching facility built around
'struct x86_cpu_desc'. It is used only for matching specific microcode
revisions.  All of the 'struct x86_cpu_desc' users can be converted to
'struct x86_cpu_id'.

Do that conversion then remove the 'struct x86_cpu_desc'
infrastructure.

Testing or acks would be much appreciated!

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 events/intel/core.c         |   72 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 include/asm/cpu_device_id.h |   55 ++++++++++-------------------
 kernel/cpu/amd.c            |    8 ++--
 kernel/cpu/match.c          |   28 ++------------
 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)