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]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.20.1609231010190.5640@nanos \
--to=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=ak@linux.intel.com \
--cc=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=hmh@hmh.eng.br \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).