From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Do not select FW_LOADER
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:12:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610131209.GT11244@42.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200610081609.GA14118@zn.tnic>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Also, I'm working on removing that homegrown get_builtin_firmware() and
> use the one in the fw loader:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200408094526.GC24663@zn.tnic
I would like to still encourage this, even with this patch in place,
as I think it makes this a proper call, and reflects better how the
firmware loader is used exactly.
FWIW, firmware loader will be changed soon to not be modular, and just
built-in or disabled.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-10 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-10 4:29 [PATCH] x86/microcode: Do not select FW_LOADER Herbert Xu
2020-06-10 8:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-10 10:28 ` Herbert Xu
2020-06-10 10:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-10 10:41 ` Herbert Xu
2020-06-10 10:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-10 11:05 ` [v2 PATCH] " Herbert Xu
2020-06-10 13:12 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2020-06-10 13:46 ` [PATCH] " Borislav Petkov
2020-06-10 14:01 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-06-15 10:03 ` [tip: x86/microcode] " tip-bot2 for Herbert Xu
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