Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:25:27 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] microcode update for P4 (fwd) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Please call these MSR_* instead, "IA32_*" isn't very descriptive, > > besides, the preferred prefix in existing locations in the Linux > > kernel is "X86_", e.g. X86_EFLAGS_IF or X86_CR4_PSE. I think there > > I think I agree with Tigran's naming. These are IA32 registers not X86 ones ;)
They are MSRs, most of all. His naming didn't reflect that, and quite frankly, I'd much rather use the names (all starting with MSR_) that the Intel documentation uses.
-hpa
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