From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] docs, amd_ucode: Add AMD container file format notes Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:49:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1412689770.4972.30.camel@citrix.com> References: <1412621867-4067-1-git-send-email-aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com> <5433EF4A.5090901@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5433EF4A.5090901@oracle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: keir@xen.org, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Aravind Gopalakrishnan , jbeulich@suse.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 09:48 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 10/06/2014 02:57 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > +------------------------------------------------- > > + > > +Intro to AMD Container Files: > > +----------------------------- > > + > > +* Beginning with processor family 10h, AMD provides microcode patch support. > > +* There is one single file (container file) containing all microcode patches > > + for AMD families 10h - 14h processors. [microcode_amd.bin] > > +* For AMD family 15h processors there is a separate container file. [microcode_amd_fam15h.bin] > > I think this would need to be updated to 15h+ as well (i.e. new file > name for all 15h and later processors). Here and in a couple of places > below. > > Since it's apparently already in the staging tree perhaps you can wait > until it shows up in the mainline and then send a patch? It's completely fine to send patches against staging if the baseline you need is in there... Ian.