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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:36:59 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 04:55, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@....eng.br> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:

>> Just a note: the intel microcode is loaded by a kernel-initiated
>> firmware request these days. There is no (broken) init script on
>
> Is it?  Which distros have deployed the required userspace and switched to
> Intel binary microcode already?

The tool is here:
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/microcode_ctl/intel-microcode2ucode.c/0efc5f6c74a4d7e61ca22683c93c98cf/intel-microcode2ucode.c

It's at least used here:
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=microcode_ctl.git;a=tree
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=microcode_ctl&project=Base%3ASystem
  http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/microcode-data/files/

Kay
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