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authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>2006-09-27 01:50:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:18 -0700
commit9a4b9efa1d39d7d31bed08fbe5a9b2a03b2759d4 (patch)
tree61a75eddfe151c4ba7212e69222f11cb6393b487 /arch/x86_64
parenta30a6a2cb0fdc2c9701d6ddfb21affeb8146c038 (diff)
[PATCH] x86 microcode: add sysfs and hotplug support
Add sysfs support. Currently each CPU has three microcode related attributes. One is 'version' which shows current ucode version of CPU. Tools can use the attribute do validation or show CPU ucode status. one is 'reload' which allows manually reloading ucode. Another is 'processor_flags', which exports processor flags, so we can write tools to check if CPU has latest ucode. Also add suspend/resume and CPU hotplug support. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: Kconfig fixes] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index ab4cbcb9e3b..32ae1378f35 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ config X86_GOOD_APIC
config MICROCODE
tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel CPU microcode support"
+ select FW_LOADER
---help---
If you say Y here the 'File systems' section, you will be
able to update the microcode on Intel processors. You will