Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758562Ab2HUUwr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:52:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35137 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758572Ab2HUUwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: <5033F4F9.4090608@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:52:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov 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 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> <20120821204858.GA30472@aftab.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120821204858.GA30472@aftab.osrc.amd.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 20 On 08/21/2012 01:48 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. > s/BIOS/ACPI/... Yes, so really it doesn't have any meaningful reason to live under the CPU vendor. -hpa -- 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/