Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:36:41 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD |
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:18:51AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Neither "depends on" nor "select" makes sense to me here. The driver > apparently works without it,
The driver works without it if you build your microcode into the kernel.
There are use cases where building microcode into the kernel is *not* a viable option so we have to support both builtin microcode and microcode from the initrd.
> and simply having BLK_DEV_INITRD enabled doesn't prevent improper > (according to some people) use of the driver. If updating microcode > is inherently unsafe when a real disk is mounted, the driver ought > to detect this and refuse the operation (possibly with an override > option).
Huh, what?
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