From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 20:31:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151106193122.GE19522@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA5McA9pL9Nvz8GsU45mjqHDgf=9YHNWzR0jK7YwQUgS5Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> So this broke dracut. Dracut will look at the config file for the
> INTEL or AMD early config options being set.
Nothing outside the kernel should depend on Kconfig symbols.
> Do we have suggestions on how to work this out going forward? I
> suppose we could assume the check should only be done on 4.3 or older
> kernels, but I'm not sure making assumptions about newer kernels is a
> great idea either.
How about always adding AMD and Intel microcode always? Maybe with a
switch to disable adding any microcode for testing purposes only...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-06 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-20 9:54 [PATCH 0/6] x86/microcode: Merge the early loader Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/microcode: Unmodularize driver Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:07 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/microcode: Unmodularize the microcode driver tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:07 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/microcode: Merge the early microcode loader tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2015-11-06 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader Josh Boyer
2015-11-06 19:31 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-11-09 9:42 ` Harald Hoyer
2015-11-09 10:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/microcode: Remove modularization leftovers Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:08 ` [tip:ras/core] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/microcode/amd: Remove maintainers from comments Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:08 ` [tip:ras/core] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/microcode/intel: Move ifdef DEBUG inside the function Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:08 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/microcode/intel: Move #ifdef " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2015-10-20 9:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Unify microcode driver section Borislav Petkov
2015-10-21 10:09 ` [tip:ras/core] MAINTAINERS: Unify the " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
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