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Subject[PATCH 3/3] firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
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We've removed the option, so stop talking about it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst | 7 +------
Documentation/x86/microcode.txt | 5 ++---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
index 7300e66857f8..396cdf591ac5 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst
@@ -11,13 +11,8 @@ options:
* CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
* CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR

-This should not be confused with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, this is for drivers
-which enables firmware to be built as part of the kernel build process. This
-option, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, will build all firmware for all drivers
-enabled which ship its firmware inside the Linux kernel source tree.
-
There are a few reasons why you might want to consider building your firmware
-into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE though:
+into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE:

* Speed
* Firmware is needed for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt
index f57e1b45e628..aacd2f5e1a46 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt
@@ -108,12 +108,11 @@ packages already put them there.
====================

The loader supports also loading of a builtin microcode supplied through
-the regular firmware builtin method CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. Only
-64-bit is currently supported.
+the regular firmware builtin method CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE. Only 64-bit is
+currently supported.

Here's an example:

-CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09 amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 20da391b5f32..6d27d53de60d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1255,9 +1255,9 @@ config MICROCODE
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD in order for the loader to be able to scan the
initrd for microcode blobs.

- In addition, you can build-in the microcode into the kernel. For that you
- need to enable FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL and add the vendor-supplied microcode
- to the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE config option.
+ In addition, you can build the microcode into the kernel. For that you
+ need to add the vendor-supplied microcode to the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
+ config option.

config MICROCODE_INTEL
bool "Intel microcode loading support"
--
2.13.6
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