From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932991AbbCRKEH (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:04:07 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:54516 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932923AbbCRKED (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:04:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:02:27 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Daniel J Blueman Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Quentin Casasnovas , Steffen Persvold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Unbreak early processor microcode loading Message-ID: <20150318100227.GA3249@pd.tnic> References: <20150304114526.GE3516@pd.tnic> <1426669752.20093.1@cpanel21.proisp.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1426669752.20093.1@cpanel21.proisp.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:09:12PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I can't reproduce your early-loading case with this same config; I suspect > your udev is loading the firmware which is available in the initramfs, or > it's being loaded later from the rootfs non-early. Yeah, you're right. I was able to reproduce it after disabling the postinst script which adds the microcode to the initrd. > I find the changes I posted earlier fix this. Maybe I'm missing something > still? I don't like the ifdeffery in your solution and would like to try to fix it in a cleaner way. Unless you come up with a better solution first. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --