From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751443AbdHEGQ0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:16:26 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55601 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbdHEGQZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:16:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:15:44 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Paul Menzel Cc: hpa@zytor.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods Message-ID: <20170805061544.GA23869@nazgul.tnic> References: <20170724101228.17326-3-bp@alien8.de> <7e438573-b35d-eea8-8f8a-c341c4dd91a4@molgen.mpg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7e438573-b35d-eea8-8f8a-c341c4dd91a4@molgen.mpg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 01:24:02PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0e3258753f8183c63bf68bd274d2cc7e71e5f402 > > Could you the script(?) please be updated to use HTTPS URLs? tip guys? > Maybe it could be added, that certain bootloaders like GRUB allow to specify > several `initrd` images. So you wouldn’t need to concatenate the file [1]. So this is the simplest script possible just to show the basic steps that are required. Any treatise of what some bootloaders do is out of scope as then I'm going to have to maintain a full-fledged script (there will be other people saying, but but, on my system... ) which is going to be pointless - distros are free to create the initrd they way they see best. This script is an example only and the bare minimum at that. > The *legacy* confuses me a little. Is it because `/sys` is used? They're legacy because they're the older methods and people should try to avoid them and concentrate on the early, initrd loading. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --