Re: Compile Error on 2.6.17-mm6

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 22:22:16 -0400
Matt Reuther <mreuther@umich.edu> wrote:

> Here is the error:
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xe282): In function 
> `cpu_request_microcode':
> arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c:544: undefined reference to `request_firmware'
> arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xe304):arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c:573: 
> undefined reference to `release_firmware'

CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m
CONFIG_MICROCODE=y

So

config MICROCODE
	tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
	depends on FW_LOADER

is not sufficient.  There's a fix for this, but I cannot remember what it
is.  Help.