[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 0cbeb26ac3fb..3fd2f256f2be 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
 
 config MICROCODE
         tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
+        select FW_LOADER
         ---help---
           If you say Y here and also to "/dev file system support" in the
           'File systems' section, you will be able to update the microcode on