Derivation of Gaussian Posterior

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1) What would happen if our posterior had this form: $p(w|X,y)= \frac{1}{D}p(y|X,w)p(w)$. Notice that $\frac{1}{D}$ is some constant, how do we deal with such a thing?

2) I noticed that in gaussian process book, they use a prior with $\mu=$ $0$. What if it was something like this: $p(w)=\mathcal{N}(w_{0},\Sigma)$. ?