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* Updated cpu module autoprobing patchkit
@ 2011-12-08  0:41 Andi Kleen
  2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 01/10] Add driver auto probing for x86 features Andi Kleen
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2011-12-08  0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: kay.sievers, trenn

Due to popular demand a new version of the cpu module autoprobing
patchkit. This exports x86 CPUID information (features, vendors, models etc.)
in a way that udev can autoprobe modules, similar to how
USB or PCI devices are autoloaded. This allows to easily
add CPU specific modules without requiring distributions
to have special case init scripts.

The biggest difference compared to the old version is that it 
hangs off the cpuid devices now, now the cpu devices. cpu devices
were sysdevs which don't have all the infrastructure needed 
for udev. cpuid has all this so it works much better.
This requires the cpuid driver to be loaded or builtin for 
the autoprobing to work.

Any testing appreciated

-Andi


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2011-12-08  0:41 Updated cpu module autoprobing patchkit Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 01/10] Add driver auto probing for x86 features Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  1:57   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-08  9:35   ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-08 14:45     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-09 20:16       ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-09 20:24         ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-09 20:28           ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-16  1:25         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 02/10] crypto: Add support for x86 cpuid auto loading for x86 crypto drivers Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 03/10] intel-idle: convert to x86_cpu_id auto probing Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 04/10] ACPI: Load acpi-cpufreq from processor driver automatically Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 05/10] HWMON: Convert via-cputemp to x86 cpuid autoprobing Andi Kleen
2011-12-08 10:51   ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 06/10] HWMON: Convert coretemp " Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  2:40   ` Guenter Roeck
2011-12-08  7:24     ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-08 16:09       ` Guenter Roeck
2011-12-08 16:13         ` Jean Delvare
2011-12-08 20:58           ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-08 14:35     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 07/10] cpufreq: Add support for x86 cpuinfo auto loading Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  1:07   ` Dave Jones
2011-12-08  1:13     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  1:24       ` Dave Jones
2011-12-08  4:01         ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  8:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-12-08 14:37     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-16  1:19       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-16  2:12         ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86: autoload microcode driver on Intel and AMD systems Andi Kleen
2011-12-08  0:41 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86: Add a test module for cpu loading Andi Kleen

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