Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753259Ab2FLWJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:09:26 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:59313 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285Ab2FLWJZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:09:25 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="152169145" Message-ID: <4FD7BE15.50604@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:09:25 -0700 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Andi Kleen , x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2 References: <1339536350-10463-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20120612213905.GE26817@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20120612213905.GE26817@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 18 > 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 -- 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/