From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754143Ab2FLUjw (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:39:52 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:13078 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753928Ab2FLUju (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:39:50 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="156766718" Message-ID: <4FD7A915.6020606@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:39:49 -0700 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Andi Kleen , x86@kernel.org, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally References: <1339533234-2265-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <4FD7A85D.4000106@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD7A85D.4000106@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/12/2012 1:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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? No reason. I can switch to that. -Andi