I committed my own patch yesterday; at this point it would be most helpful if you could test it out to make sure it works as it should...
Bryan O'Donoghue <[email protected]> wrote: >On 20/04/13 00:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 04/19/2013 02:44 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote: >>> On 19/04/13 22:25, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:55:15PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>>>> Just filter out P5 and earlier. The code already does that for >CPUs >>>>> which don't have CPUID. >>>> >>>> Actually, an alternative - more practical albeit not very accurate >>> >>> More practical ? Hmm - the MSRs don't exist for< P5 >>> >>>> solution would be to check for which families Intel delivers >microcode >>>> and do the cut off there with a comment as to why you do it like >>>> that.void >>> >>> You mean return !intel so this function will never be called. >>> >>> __init load_ucode_bsp(void) >>> { >>> int vendor = x86_vendor(); >>> >>> if (vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) >>> load_ucode_intel_bsp(); >>> } >>> >>> Ah yes. That would work and be less code. >>> >>> We should do it that way. >> >> Do you think you can have a patch for me in the next few hours? > >Sure. > >I'm in Ireland (sleeping @ 00:15 on a Friday night sadly). > >Give me ~ 40 minutes -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
