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    SubjectRE: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@amd64.org]
    > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM
    > To: H. Peter Anvin
    > Cc: Yu, Fenghua; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas
    > Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav
    > Petkov; linux-kernel; x86
    > Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define
    > interfaces for early load ucode
    >
    > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:13:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > > I don't know what Borislav was suggesting with "BIOS overrides", is
    > > that another CPU-specific thing?
    >
    > Not CPU- but rather platform-specific. It is Thomas Renninger's
    > mechanism to override BIOS tables.

    That's ACPI override. I think the ACPI tables could be put in kernel/x86/acpi/.

    Thanks.

    -Fenghua



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