Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Use ELF section to list CPU vendor specificcode (Linux Tiny)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:54:30 -0800,
> > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >
> > > b) would be my first choice, and yes, it would be a good thing to
> > > have a generalized mechanism for this.  For the registrant, it's
> > > pretty easy: just add a macro that adds a pointer to a named
> > > section.  We then need a way to get the base address and length of
> > > each such section in order to be able to execute each function in
> > > sequence.
> > You'll find below a tentative patch that implements this. Tuple 
> > (vendor, pointer to cpu_dev structure) are stored in a 
> > x86cpuvendor.init section of the kernel, which is then read by the 
> > generic CPU code in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c to fill the 
> > cpu_devs[] function.
>
> thanks, i've picked this up into x86.git. It all looks much cleaner and 
> much more maintainable now. Peter, any objections?

Looks great to me.

	-hpa
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