Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD | From | Michal Marek <> | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:48:40 +0100 |
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On 2016-01-08 13:27, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. :-)
You can add a conditional comment like this
comment "WARNING: Early microcode loader requires initramfs support" depends on MICROCODE && !BLK_DEV_INITRD
and hope that somebody reads it.
Michal
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