linux-kernel - Re: Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment

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Date:   Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:08:32 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@...il.com>
Cc:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 09:58:25PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Before that 16-byte alignment patch was applied, my only one
> microcode built-in BLOB was "accidentally" 16-byte aligned.

Btw, just out of curiosity: why are you using built-in microcode and not
the initrd method?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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