Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965196AbWEYPEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965197AbWEYPEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:04:46 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:4541 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965196AbWEYPEp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 11:04:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:02:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Jones , Shaohua Li , lkml , Tigran Aivazian , Rajesh Shah , "Van De Ven, Adriaan" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] microcode update driver rewrite Message-ID: <20060525150224.GB1428@kroah.com> References: <1148529049.32046.103.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20060525040557.GA30175@kroah.com> <20060525041234.GA22024@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060525041234.GA22024@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 22 On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:12:34AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:05:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Don't use request_firmware, use request_firmware_nowait() instead. That > > way you never stall. You only want to update the firmware when > > userspace tells you to, not for every boot like I think this will do. > > But the CPU microcode *does* need reloading on each boot, as it's stored > in volatile memory that goes away on reboot. Sorry about that, you are right. But this will make the boot process a bit different than what it currently is, just make sure that the distros realize this change... thanks, greg k-h - 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/