From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com, bp@alien8.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:48:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A56335.5020100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A55E04.9020606@amd.com>
On 11/15/2012 01:26 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>
>> Because it looks like without this patch, some valid microcode updates
>> would be rejected by the kernel...
>
> Right, patch loading will fail.
>
> I wasn't sure whether stable would be appropriate since this is support
> for new HW. OTOH since this would result in loss of functionality one
> could consider this a bug.
>
I already promoted it and will push it into -tip as soon as it passes my
smoke tests.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-15 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 18:41 [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors Boris Ostrovsky
2012-11-15 20:24 ` Andreas Herrmann
2012-11-15 20:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-11-15 21:26 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2012-11-15 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-11-15 21:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-11-15 21:55 ` Andreas Herrmann
2012-11-15 23:01 ` Gene Heskett
2012-11-15 23:35 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2012-11-17 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-11-17 15:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-11-17 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-11-17 18:34 ` Gene Heskett
2012-11-17 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-17 20:07 ` Gene Heskett
2012-11-17 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-17 19:54 ` Andreas Herrmann
2012-11-17 20:11 ` Gene Heskett
2012-11-19 14:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-11-15 21:55 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Boris Ostrovsky
2012-11-21 7:36 ` tip-bot for Boris Ostrovsky
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