Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-11-20T08:33:53Z

On 2015.11.20 at 09:27 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > > > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an
> > > > > initrd was removed this merge window.
> > > >
> > > > Whoops, that shouldnt've happened. Will debug it tomorrow and provide a
> > > > fix.
> > >
> > > Anyway, the hunk below seems to work in my guest here, I'll run it
> > > on the rest of the boxes tomorrow. In case you want to give it a try
> > > before:
> >
> > Your patch works fine. Thanks.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> > But of course it needs this additional patch, otherwise the microcode
> > loader wouldn't build at all:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > index db3622f22b61..52c6964e24bd 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -1126,7 +1126,6 @@ config MICROCODE
> > bool "CPU microcode loading support"
> > default y
> > depends on CPU_SUP_AMD || CPU_SUP_INTEL
> > - depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
> > select FW_LOADER
> > ---help---
>
> That dependency is a must as the early loader needs the initrd support.

Well, BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set in my config and it works just fine...

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Markus