Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753804AbZJYRMU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:12:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752357AbZJYRMU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:12:20 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60607 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752230AbZJYRMT (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:12:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:18 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dmitry Adamushko , Tigran Aivazian , Mike Travis , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Jack Steiner , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Andreas Mohr , Hugh Dickins , Hannes Eder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] SGI x86_64 UV: Limit the number of microcode messages Message-ID: <20091025101118.522a7aa4@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20091025163704.GE20391@elte.hu> References: <20091023233743.439628000@alcatraz.americas.sgi.com> <20091023233756.941535000@alcatraz.americas.sgi.com> <20091025163704.GE20391@elte.hu> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 24 On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:37:04 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Having the precise microcode version printed (or exposed somewhere in > /sys) is useful - sometimes when there's a weird crash in some > prototype CPU one of the first questions from hw vendors is 'which > precise microcode version was that?'. something like /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version ? (yes that is there today ;-) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/