From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:42:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170718074217.GA8372@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718062754.GA12057@isilmar-4.linta.de>
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:27:54AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> What about: "... microcode in (uncompressed) cpio format followed by the
> (possibly compressed) initrd image", to clarify this distinction?
Meh.
> What about something more fancy, such as
> iucode_tool -v /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/ -S $DSTDIR/GenuineIntel.bin
> ?
Why, because fancy is better? And simple is not good enough?
The less we rely on special tools for kernel stuff, the better.
> Maybe specify here that this works using the firmware infrastructure,
> therefore the microcode will be loaded from /lib/firmware/ ? Basically the
> same terms apply for this method as for the builtin microcode you describe
> next.
The distro package already installs it into /lib/firmware but ok, I'll
note the path explicitly.
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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2017-07-17 9:43 Borislav Petkov
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