Re: [PATCH V3 0/2] x86/microcode/amd: early loading fixes

From: Jacob Shin
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 11:16:38 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:30:53PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:22:18PM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> > > This patchset addreses two problems with early loading on AMD.
> > >
> > > First, feedback from Yinghai that find_ucode_in_initrd() should be
> > > marked __init:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/4/695
> > >
> > > And second, feedback from Henrique that Intel early loading supports
> > > multiple microcode firmware concatenated together, whereas the current
> > > AMD implementation lacks this support:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/31/4
> > >
> > > V3:
> > > * style fix -- reduce multiple if statements into a single one
> >
> > Hi hpa or Yinghai, just wondering if you had the chance to look at this
> > V3 yet.
>
> It appears Peter applied v2 to tip:x86/microcode two days before you sent
> v3 - please send any changes in v3 as delta patches.

I actually recieved the tip-bot email <https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/12/468>
couple of days after sending out the above message, so I assumed that
V3 was committed in.

I should have read the tip-bot message thoroughly and noticed
it. Sorry about that. Here is the delta patch:

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