Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:12:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Report Intel platform_id in /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Andi Kleen wrote: > The processor flags are already used in the microcode driver. > The MSR can be also accessed through /dev/cpu/*/msr, but that > requires root and is awkward. > > This patch just exports the value retrieved by the microcode > driver in /proc/cpuinfo. If the microcode driver is disabled > it won't be shown, but that seems reasonable.
The patch is fine, but these two paragraphs are describing something else.
Thanks,
tglx
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