Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:32:32 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 06:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 06/13/2012 01:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >> > >> But why, do you see a better option for how to tell the kernel to load a > >> binary blob early at boot? > > > > built it in? There's this feature where you can included firmware blobs > > in the kernel image. It has all the benefits of initrd, since the only > > time I ever would update initrd if used it, would be when I install a > > new kernel, which I just built anyway. > > > > You know you can build in an initramfs blob in the kernel, right? In > fact, there always is one there even if you don't create it explicitly.
Didn't know that..
> Problem solved, methinks.
Yep.
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