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Greetings.
I'm developing a character device driver for NetBSD that will allow the
microcode update in the IA-32 architecture, but I have some design questions
that I would like to clarify:
    * What devices should I use for SMP machines ? Should I create only
      /dev/microcodei (and then use ioctl() to select the CPU)=20
      or /dev/microcode[0-3] (for a 4-way SMP system) ?=20
      (I think the last follows UNIX semantics better).
    * I've been seeing the lkm code and I found that the loaded lkm list is=
 an
      array (lkmods[MAXLKMS]). Why isn't it a linked list, since this would
      allow better cleanness ?

Best regards.

--=20
  "Simplicity is the ultimate=20
    sophistication."=20
    -- Leonardo da Vinci     =20


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