Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032281AbbKFTby (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:31:54 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:47457 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964918AbbKFTbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:31:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 20:31:22 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Josh Boyer Cc: Harald Hoyer , Laura Abbott , X86 ML , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/microcode: Merge early loader Message-ID: <20151106193122.GE19522@pd.tnic> References: <1445334889-300-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <1445334889-300-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 24 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. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/