linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader

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Message-ID: <20151106193122.GE19522@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 20:31:22 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	Harald Hoyer <harald@...hat.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> So this broke dracut.  Dracut will look at the config file for the
> INTEL or AMD early config options being set.

Nothing outside the kernel should depend on Kconfig symbols.

> Do we have suggestions on how to work this out going forward?  I
> suppose we could assume the check should only be done on 4.3 or older
> kernels, but I'm not sure making assumptions about newer kernels is a
> great idea either.

How about always adding AMD and Intel microcode always? Maybe with a
switch to disable adding any microcode for testing purposes only...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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