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From: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for
 early load ucode
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@amd64.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:20 PM
> To: H. Peter Anvin
> Cc: Yu, Fenghua; Henrique de Moraes Holschuh; Ingo Molnar; Thomas
> Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav
> Petkov; linux-kernel; x86
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define
> interfaces for early load ucode
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:08:49PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Only time will tell. I was simply saying that we should leave ourselves
> the door opened, should we need functionality like that in the future.
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Ok, I see.
> 
> How about the following scheme then:
> 
> kernel/x86/<vendor>-microcode.bin
> kernel/x86/<vendor>-bios-overrides.blob
> ...
> 
> ?
> 
> All I'm saying is maybe we should impose some sanity rules now before
> people go crazy with this and things get out of hands...

We might name the cpio directory as:

kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin
kernel/x86/acpi/...
etc.

This is expendable for the future usage.
 
Plus I will add a doc on the cpio directory, supported directory names and how to add new stuffs in the directory.

Thanks.

-Fenghua


Thanks.

-Fenghua
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