From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>,
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c.
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:11:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080920061145.GD25713@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D3AEB5.1000007@debian.org>
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> wrote:
>> That sounds like a single-module solution would be the best way to
>> go. All dependencies would then be handled inside the module.
>
> Single module probably is more difficult to maintain.
why? In this case we have just two relevant CPU microcode drivers - and
we dont expect their number to grow significantly. So it should be
perfectly clean to link everything into a single module.
In fact as this example has shown it a single-module solution has
numerous advantages, as it simplifies userspace interactions.
Taken to the extreme, a single-image (bzImage) kernel has many
advantages over a many-modules kernel as well. So we only want to
modularize when we absolutely have to, and this is not one of those
cases.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-20 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 16:44 [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 02/11] [PATCH 02/11] x86: Moved Intel microcode patch loader declarations to seperate header file Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 03/11] [PATCH 03/11] x86: Typedef removal Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 04/11] [PATCH 04/11] x86: Moved per CPU microcode structure declaration to header file Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c Peter Oruba
2008-09-07 19:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-12 11:54 ` Peter Oruba
2008-09-12 13:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-12 13:53 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 11:59 ` Peter Oruba
2008-09-19 12:37 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-09-19 12:58 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 13:03 ` Peter Oruba
2008-09-19 13:52 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-20 6:11 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-19 14:06 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 14:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20 6:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-19 13:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 06/11] [PATCH 06/11] x86: Code split to two parts Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 07/11] [PATCH 07/11] x86: Structure declaration renaming Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 08/11] [PATCH 08/11] x86: Add AMD specific declarations Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 09/11] [PATCH 09/11] x86: First step of refactoring, introducing microcode_ops Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 10/11] [PATCH 10/11] x86: Major refactoring Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 19:36 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-28 19:50 ` Tigran Aivazian
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 11/11] [PATCH 11/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 18:01 ` [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29 8:10 ` [PATCH] x86, microcode support: fix build error Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29 8:10 ` [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29 8:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
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