Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (80 mails)

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 23:34, Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2011 18:20:14 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > Is there any news or improvements on the Intel microcode autoload
> > feature so we can get rid of init/systemd scripts that currently do a
> > task that is better done with either the kernel or udev ?
> There is a tool to split up the microcode as provided by Intel
> into individual family-model-stepping specific files.
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/microcode_ctl/intel-microcode2ucode.c/0efc5f6c74a4d7e61ca22683c93c98cf/intel-microcode2ucode.c
>
> I expect this should live in udev or in the kernel-firmware
> repo (at least the Intel microcode should be there if possible).
>
> But the code has no license described and quick googling didn't
> tell me whether it's already part of some mainline project.
>
> If it's clear where this should end up, I'd like to give it a test
> and integrate it if it works as expected.

Oh, right, licences. I just wrote it one night to get rid of this
problem. :) If you need a license, add 'GPLv2 or later'.

The tool should live in the package that ships the microcode. Ideally,
someone asks Intel to just ship the files that way in the future, and
the tool can go away.

Kay
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