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

From: Yu, Fenghua
Date: Tue Aug 21 2012 - 16:52:23 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM
> To: H. Peter Anvin
> 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
>
> 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.

That's ACPI override. I think the ACPI tables could be put in kernel/x86/acpi/.

Thanks.

-Fenghua

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