linux-kernel - Re: New format Intel microcode...

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:03:10 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>,
	jamagallon@....com, tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode...

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:43 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Li,
> 
> > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the
> > > old firmware files to the new format (eg
> > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from
> > > Intel (or otherwise) in this new format?
> > Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a
> > new website. We will announce it when it's ready.
> 
> please do _NOT_ use any sub-directories in the request_firmware() call.

it's not a strictly a subdirectory; there is a slash in the "metaname"
the kernel asks for, and you can in userspace see it as subdirectory or
you don't.. that's entirely upto the userspace side :)
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