Messages in this thread | | | From | "Yu, Fenghua" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:52:26 +0000 |
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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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