Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig

Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18T14:41:39Z

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 02:11:49PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Wasn't the idea *not* to disable CONFIG_MICROCODE?

Is the error message not understandable?

+MSG="\nYou have CONFIG_MICROCODE enabled without BLK_DEV_INITRD. The preferred\n\
+way is to enable it and make sure microcode is added to your initrd as\n\
+explained in Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt. This is also the\n\
+most tested method as the majority of distros do it. Alternatively, and\n\
+if you don't want to enable modules, you should make sure the microcode\n\
+is built into the kernel.\n"

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