Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08T12:27:28Z

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:16:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> But you take the choice away from people like me, who don't need initrd
> at all. BLK_DEV_INITRD is a superfluous dependency in this case, because
> microcode update works perfectly well without it.

Damn, you have a valid point too. I need to think about it...

... well, the only thing I can think of right now is to remove the
dependency on BLK_DEV_INITRD completely - I believe this is what you
proposed initially Markus - and add a BIG FAT SUGGESTION to Kconfig
saying that people should strive for enabling early microcode loading if
possible.

This is the only way I see we can handle "make oldconfig" without
BLK_DEV_INITRD and microcode built-in into the kernel cases relatively
fair.

Hmmm.

Or I could hack "oldconfig" to issue that warning... Lemme think about
it and see how much Michal would scream at me for it. :-)

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