On Tuesday 2016-02-02 18:53, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2016, 16:18:04 CET schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
The earlycpio image contains CPU firmware updates, and since not all CPUs support that, not all systems have an early cpio image that can be skipped.
Is there any reason it cannot be part of initrd? As far as I understand, all individual parts are simply extracted by kernel onto initramfs anyway ...
"""Kernel can update microcode in early phase of boot time. Loading microcode early can fix CPU issues before they are observed during kernel boot time. [...] During BSP boot (before SMP starts), if the kernel finds the microcode file in the initrd file, it parses the microcode and saves matching microcode in memory. If matching microcode is found, it will be uploaded in BSP and later on in all APs.[auxiliary processors]""" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org