From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753923Ab2FLUhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:37:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45578 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753218Ab2FLUhD (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:37:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4FD7A85D.4000106@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:36:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: x86@kernel.org, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally References: <1339533234-2265-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <1339533234-2265-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/12/2012 01:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > +/* Global minimum microcode version */ > +int min_microcode; > + Any reason not to use boot_cpu_data.microcode for this, much like we do with the CPUID common subset? -hpa