Re: [PATCH 6/8] SGI x86_64 UV: Limit the number of microcodemessages

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Oct 25 2009 - 13:12:31 EST


On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:37:04 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Having the precise microcode version printed (or exposed somewhere in
> /sys) is useful - sometimes when there's a weird crash in some
> prototype CPU one of the first questions from hw vendors is 'which
> precise microcode version was that?'.

something like
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version ?

(yes that is there today ;-)


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