Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:54:30 -0800,
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
b) would be my first choice, and yes, it would be a good thing to
have a generalized mechanism for this. For the registrant, it's
pretty easy: just add a macro that adds a pointer to a named
section. We then need a way to get the base address and length of
each such section in order to be able to execute each function in
sequence.
You'll find below a tentative patch that implements this. Tuple
(vendor, pointer to cpu_dev structure) are stored in a
x86cpuvendor.init section of the kernel, which is then read by the
generic CPU code in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c to fill the
cpu_devs[] function.
thanks, i've picked this up into x86.git. It all looks much cleaner and
much more maintainable now. Peter, any objections?
Looks great to me.
-hpa
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