Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] microcode update for P4 (fwd)

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 15:25:27 EST

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    Alan Cox wrote:
    >
    > > Please call these MSR_* instead, "IA32_*" isn't very descriptive,
    > > besides, the preferred prefix in existing locations in the Linux
    > > kernel is "X86_", e.g. X86_EFLAGS_IF or X86_CR4_PSE. I think there
    >
    > I think I agree with Tigran's naming. These are IA32 registers not X86 ones ;)

    They are MSRs, most of all. His naming didn't reflect that, and quite
    frankly, I'd much rather use the names (all starting with MSR_) that the
    Intel documentation uses.

            -hpa 

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