Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:41:11 +0100 | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | Subject | Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD |
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On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > >>I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole > >>Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig". > > > >Can you send me that 4.3 config please? > > Attached. It is a little bit unusual config without modules etc. > > But doesn't dropping Microcde stuff in the config happen to anyone who > hasn't INITRD stuff switched on?
Yes. But, as I wrote above, if you simply drop the BLK_DEV_INITRD dependency, it will work just fine. I also don't use modules and the firmware gets applied at boot time.
... [ 2.573261] EDAC amd64: MCT channel count: 2 [ 2.573401] EDAC MC0: Giving out device to module amd64_edac controller F10h: DEV 0000:00:18.2 (INTERRUPT) [ 2.573414] EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module amd64_edac controller EDAC PCI controller: DEV 0000:00:18.2 (POLLED) [ 2.573424] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina [ 2.573449] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 2.573449] usbhid: USB HID core driver [ 2.573770] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio [ 2.573786] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. [ 2.573797] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (65536 buckets, 262144 max) [ 2.573966] ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink. [ 2.574427] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 2.574477] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 2.574487] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support [ 2.574717] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x010000db [ 2.574724] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x010000db [ 2.574731] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x010000db [ 2.574736] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x010000db [ 2.574761] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba [ 2.574876] registered taskstats version 1 [ 2.575132] Btrfs loaded ...
-- Markus
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