Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (80 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/11/11 19:34, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2011 18:20:14 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > 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).

Problem is that it needs to be loaded either very early, just after /dev 
creation or better in the initrd otherwise you will be booting init on a 
buggy CPU, to make matters worst, no changelog is provided to know what 
kind of bugs it fixes :-|




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