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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:08:49 -0700
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To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for
 early load ucode
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On 08/20/2012 07:06 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Or,
> 
> in case we want to supply more vendor-specific stuff early at boot, we
> could do:
> 
> kernel/x86/<vendor>/microcode...
> 		|-> bios_overrides
> 		|-> ...
> 
> and have this layout extensible from the beginning...
> 

Does that make sense, though?  I'm a bit concerned about having multiple
files named microcode.bin by default; the pathname isn't as sticky as
the filename when people move things around...

	-hpa
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