Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add Kconfig option to remove microcode loading support

[Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.garciavallejo@amd.com>]

On Tue Jan 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM CET, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.01.2026 11:38, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>> On Tue Jan 20, 2026 at 11:20 AM CET, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 20.01.2026 10:38, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>>>> The only dependency here is patch 2 going in before patch 3. Everything else
>>>> can be freely rearranged.
>>>
>>> Is this correct? Didn't you say (confirming what I observed elsewhere a little
>>> while back) that there's a complaint when a file listed in the exclusions doesn't
>>> exist anymore (which may have been cppcheck, not Eclair, but still breaking CI)?
>>> IOW can patch 4 really be separate from patch 3? Or, if its description was to
>>> be trusted, wouldn't it need to go ahead of what is now patch 3?
>> 
>> Doh, you're right, they are out of order. Patch 4 now just removes the exclusion
>> so it's fine to do it separately.
>
> I.e. the description there saying "it's clean" is accurate, and it was excluded
> for (effectively) no reason?

All I can say is that I looked at the report after running Eclair and found no
trace of earlycpio.c in the violations. It's not clean, but I don't think it
is as of now.

As to why it was excluded in the first place, your guess is as good as mine.
Maybe all decompressors were excluded regardless of them being clean or not
(e.g: zstd is also excluded).

Cheers,
Alejandro