From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753988AbcAHM20 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:28:26 -0500 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:43117 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920AbcAHM2Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:28:25 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf , Thomas Voegtle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD References: <20151120082716.GA4028@pd.tnic> <20160107121841.GB16472@pd.tnic> <20160108105900.GA14673@pd.tnic> <20160108113641.GE14673@pd.tnic> <20160108120812.GF14673@pd.tnic> <20160108121601.GC320@x4> <20160108122719.GG14673@pd.tnic> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:28:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20160108122719.GG14673@pd.tnic> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:27:19 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Borislav Petkov writes: > 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. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. -- Måns Rullgård