[PATCH] build in microcode driver on x86
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 18:49:57 UTC 2009
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:17:38PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> It doesn't really gain anything from being static, aside from requiring
> odd udev rules and/or init scripts to load it.
We had this discussion yesterday on irc, but I never really got this in my head.
It works ok with microcode.dat, but what happens if Intel release
an update in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/$f-$m-$s format ?
The driver will do a request_firmware, but if we build the driver in,
we'll be in the initrd, where that file won't exist.
To make it work, we'll either have to..
- have the firmware in the initramfs
or
- pretend the request_firmware didn't happen, and have the initscript
continue to do the microcode_ctl
Which direction are we moving in ?
Dave
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