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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:27:16 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge
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On 06/12/2012 12:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:07 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Nice, this is the initrd cpio thing, cool, no changes needed for the
>> bootloader. Ping me when you have something ready so that I can start
>> testing it here too. 
> 
> What do people like me do that don't use initrd like nonsense?
> 

There is no requirement that you use an initramfs userspace.  This is
just data loaded via the initramfs protocol rather than inventing a new one.

	-hpa


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