Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces forearly load ucode

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> > Actually I think we can also skip one level of indirection here... no
> > need to mention "microcode" twice.
> > 
> > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel or GenuineIntel.bin seems good
> > enough... the idea here of course is that the string can come from
> > CPUID.
> That's right. Will do this.

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...

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