Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:48:26 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > > Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> said: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:39:07PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > If none of the above this an option, I'd vote for a non-ia32 specific > > > name, so other CPUs with this option can reuse it. /dev/mcde? /dev/mud? > > > /dev/cpumu? > > > The process is so architecture specific that this hardly makes sense. > > For MIPS for example ``cat firmware > /dev/null'' is sufficient, there is > > no stinking firmware :-) > > The _process_ may be, but not the idea of "odwnloading firmware somehow". >
... right, and the process is almost certainly CPL 0 only, so it needs to be in kernel space anyhow.
-hpa
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