Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758558Ab2HUUta (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:49:30 -0400 Received: from mail.x86-64.org ([217.9.48.20]:33665 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758405Ab2HUUtJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:49:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:48:58 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov 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 Message-ID: <20120821204858.GA30472@aftab.osrc.amd.com> References: <1345277729-8399-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <20120818224442.GB32120@khazad-dum.debian.net> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C71220077879BF@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <503078A2.9030204@zytor.com> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007787B22@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <20120820140630.GD24149@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <50329951.9030805@zytor.com> <20120820201947.GC15006@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C712200778846C@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <5033EBE6.5080608@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5033EBE6.5080608@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 21 On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:13:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I don't know what Borislav was suggesting with "BIOS overrides", is > that another CPU-specific thing? Not CPU- but rather platform-specific. It is Thomas Renninger's mechanism to override BIOS tables. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach GM: Alberto Bozzo Reg: Dornach, Landkreis Muenchen HRB Nr. 43632 WEEE Registernr: 129 19551 -- 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/