On Monday 28 November 2011 17:43:58 Thomas Renninger wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2011 12:25:37 AM Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
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 ? ...
Another (last) open issue is: What loads the microcode.ko driver?
Afaik Andi worked on autoloading CPU specific drivers, any news here? Otherwise something static has to be added to udev, e.g. catching a CPU add event, check and load microcode driver on all Intel and all AMD fam10h or newer. Google points to this patch (from the dir name it seem to come from Matthew): http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/cpu_modaliases.diff
Did this get rejected, do you plan to get this mainline? From a quick look I'd say the ven, fam, mod and stp strings shoult not be needed and an arch "column" could be added to differ different cpu architecture specific cpu aliases: MODULE_ALIAS("cpu:x86:GenuineIntel:6:14:*:*"); instead of: MODULE_ALIAS("cpu:venGenuineIntel:fam6:mod14:*"); But in general this should be the way to go for cpu driver autoloading? If this is old or got stuck, I'd like to understand the missing bits and would give it another try to get it mainline if it makes sense. Thanks, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org