From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: changes to microcode update driver.
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:43:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031008194317.GA15832@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310070352590.16056-100000@south.veritas.com>
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 1. Remove ->read() method for /dev/cpu/microcode device node and do not
> hold a copy of applied microcode chunks in kernel memory. In the days when
> we had a regular devfs file with a non-zero size this had at least some
> potential use but now this feature is almost useless and removing it would
> allow a lot of code cleanup and simplification.
It would be nice to record the MD5 or SHA checksum of the loaded
microcode, so it's possible to check which one was loaded.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-08 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-07 10:58 RFC: changes to microcode update driver Tigran Aivazian
2003-10-07 11:02 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-10-07 13:34 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2003-10-07 13:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-10-07 13:54 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-08 8:59 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-10-08 10:07 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-08 19:43 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-07 13:56 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-07 15:56 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-10-07 16:03 ` Tigran Aivazian
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