linux-kernel - Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...

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Message-ID: <65663.1215080245@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:17:25 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jonathan@...masters.org,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, greg@...ah.com,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:23:48 BST, David Woodhouse said:

> The recent firmware changes haven't modified this. The important change
> seems to have been here (in 2006):
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a30a6a2c

Aha. That's the part I was missing. :)

>From the changelog for that commit, Shaohua Li wrote:

"with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files
into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into
small one and later we will release new style data file).  The init script
should be changed to ..."

And apparently I got stuck between the unreleased tool to split the file,
and the release of the new style data file.

Anyhow, it appears the firmware_request() was just a bullet loaded in the
chamber waiting for me to pull the trigger 2 years later by setting
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n :)

The behavior is explained, and presumably Intel will eventually release
a method of getting the new-format bits, and all will be right with the
world (or at least this part of it.. ;)

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