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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on
 SandyBridge
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
        ming.m.lin@intel.com, "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:32:28 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> But why, do you see a better option for how to tell the kernel to load a
> binary blob early at boot? 

built it in? There's this feature where you can included firmware blobs
in the kernel image. It has all the benefits of initrd, since the only
time I ever would update initrd if used it, would be when I install a
new kernel, which I just built anyway.


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