Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:57:47 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] microcode update for P4 (fwd) |
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Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Peter, > > you probably missed the message I sent to you earlier. I have already > explained that I did use the names which Intel documentation uses. You may > have an old (Pentium III) version of the manual but the current > (P4) is already available (albeit a preliminary) and that is what I used > as a guidance. > > It makes sense to check the facts before stating the same wrong statement > twice. >
OK, fair enough. Let me make a new statement then: I suggest we preface these with MSR_ anyway so we can tell what they really are.
-hpa
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