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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code (Linux Tiny)

    * Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

    > Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:54:30 -0800,
    > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> a écrit :
    >
    > > b) would be my first choice, and yes, it would be a good thing to
    > > have a generalized mechanism for this. For the registrant, it's
    > > pretty easy: just add a macro that adds a pointer to a named
    > > section. We then need a way to get the base address and length of
    > > each such section in order to be able to execute each function in
    > > sequence.
    >
    > You'll find below a tentative patch that implements this. Tuple
    > (vendor, pointer to cpu_dev structure) are stored in a
    > x86cpuvendor.init section of the kernel, which is then read by the
    > generic CPU code in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c to fill the
    > cpu_devs[] function.

    thanks, i've picked this up into x86.git. It all looks much cleaner and
    much more maintainable now. Peter, any objections?

    Ingo
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