From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:41:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160107124111.GB320@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1601071330090.23854@er-systems.de>
On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> >>I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole
> >>Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig".
> >
> >Can you send me that 4.3 config please?
>
> Attached. It is a little bit unusual config without modules etc.
>
> But doesn't dropping Microcde stuff in the config happen to anyone who
> hasn't INITRD stuff switched on?
Yes. But, as I wrote above, if you simply drop the BLK_DEV_INITRD
dependency, it will work just fine.
I also don't use modules and the firmware gets applied at boot time.
...
[ 2.573261] EDAC amd64: MCT channel count: 2
[ 2.573401] EDAC MC0: Giving out device to module amd64_edac controller F10h: DEV 0000:00:18.2 (INTERRUPT)
[ 2.573414] EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module amd64_edac controller EDAC PCI controller: DEV 0000:00:18.2 (POLLED)
[ 2.573424] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 2.573449] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.573449] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.573770] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 2.573786] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 2.573797] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (65536 buckets, 262144 max)
[ 2.573966] ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
[ 2.574427] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 2.574477] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.574487] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
[ 2.574717] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x010000db
[ 2.574724] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x010000db
[ 2.574731] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x010000db
[ 2.574736] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x010000db
[ 2.574761] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[ 2.574876] registered taskstats version 1
[ 2.575132] Btrfs loaded
...
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Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 21:43 x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-11-19 21:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-19 22:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-20 7:19 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-11-20 8:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-20 8:33 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-11-20 8:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-20 11:24 ` [PATCH] x86/microcode: Initialize the driver late when facilities are up Borislav Petkov
2015-11-23 16:28 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-07 12:12 ` x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD Thomas Voegtle
2016-01-07 12:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-07 12:36 ` Thomas Voegtle
2016-01-07 12:41 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2016-01-08 9:33 ` Thomas Voegtle
2016-01-08 12:18 ` Mike Keehan
2016-01-08 12:20 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2016-01-08 10:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 11:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-08 11:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 11:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-08 12:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 12:16 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2016-01-08 12:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 12:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-08 12:48 ` Michal Marek
2016-01-08 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 14:48 ` Michal Marek
2016-01-11 19:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-11 20:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-11 20:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-11 21:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-11 21:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-14 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 13:36 ` Thomas Voegtle
2016-01-18 14:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 14:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-18 14:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 14:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-18 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 15:42 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-19 8:20 ` [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Ingo Molnar
2016-01-19 8:40 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2016-01-19 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-19 9:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-19 9:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-19 9:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 9:57 ` [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Michal Marek
2016-01-19 10:30 ` [RFC] CONFIG_GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG=y Ingo Molnar
2016-01-19 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-19 17:52 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-19 12:29 ` [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Måns Rullgård
2016-01-19 12:43 ` Michal Marek
2016-01-19 12:57 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-01-21 22:06 ` [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-09 13:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-08 12:18 ` x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD Måns Rullgård
2016-01-19 17:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 9:14 ` Thomas Voegtle
2016-01-20 11:15 ` Borislav Petkov
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