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Message-ID: <568FCC45.1010301@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:48:37 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD
On 2016-01-08 14:37, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
>> You can add a conditional comment like this
>>
>> comment "WARNING: Early microcode loader requires initramfs support"
>> depends on MICROCODE && !BLK_DEV_INITRD
>>
>> and hope that somebody reads it.
>
> Actually, I was thinking about something which gets printed when doing
> "make oldconfig". In addition to the Kconfig text.
The comments are printed during make oldconfig if a symbol in the
current menu needs updating. Which is probably not the case here, both
MICROCODE and BLK_DEV_INITRD are existing symbols.
> I'll take a look once
> the stupid cold goes away...
Oh, get well soon.
Michal
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