Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Aug 20 2012 - 11:39:35 EST


On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> Documentation/x86/earlyucode.txt | 43 +++
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 22 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpio.h | 10 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 23 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h | 103 +++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 3 +
> arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 6 +
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 6 +
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 7 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c | 74 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 185 +------------
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c | 482 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_lib.c | 163 +++++++++++

One more thing:

This screams for adding a directory called "microcode" in the kernel
sources and moving all the microcode-related files there. IOW:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
...

And yes, they should be under "cpu" too.

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