Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:53:37 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode |
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On 08/21/2012 01:52 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@amd64.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM >> To: H. Peter Anvin >> Cc: Yu, Fenghua; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas >> Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav >> Petkov; linux-kernel; x86 >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define >> interfaces for early load ucode >> >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:13:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> I don't know what Borislav was suggesting with "BIOS overrides", is >>> that another CPU-specific thing? >> >> Not CPU- but rather platform-specific. It is Thomas Renninger's >> mechanism to override BIOS tables. > > That's ACPI override. I think the ACPI tables could be put in kernel/x86/acpi/. >
kernel/acpi... ACPI is not x86-specific.
-hpa
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