Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:09:25 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2 |
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> Ok, is it only me or is this boot_min_microcode superfluous? > IOW, you can only use boot_cpu_data.microcode instead and drop > boot_min_microcode.
boot_cpu_data.microcode contains a copy of the original microcode, so we couldn't detect the boot cpu case. In theory could hard code CPU #0 is boot cpu or so, but I prefer to track it with the separate variable.
-Andi
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