From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
hmh@hmh.eng.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Report Intel platform_id in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:12:31 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609231010190.5640@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474591707-18587-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Andi Kleen wrote:
> The processor flags are already used in the microcode driver.
> The MSR can be also accessed through /dev/cpu/*/msr, but that
> requires root and is awkward.
>
> This patch just exports the value retrieved by the microcode
> driver in /proc/cpuinfo. If the microcode driver is disabled
> it won't be shown, but that seems reasonable.
The patch is fine, but these two paragraphs are describing something else.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-23 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-23 0:48 [PATCH] x86: Report Intel platform_id in /proc/cpuinfo Andi Kleen
2016-09-23 8:12 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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2016-10-18 23:23 Andi Kleen
2016-09-23 18:02 Andi Kleen
2016-06-02 15:51 Andi Kleen
2016-06-21 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-22 11:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-09-21 12:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-05-31 21:24 Andi Kleen
2016-06-02 18:27 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-06-02 22:54 ` Andi Kleen
2016-05-05 10:12 Andi Kleen
2016-05-06 12:42 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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