Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754618Ab2FMPiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:38:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53792 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255Ab2FMPit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:38:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4FD8B3DA.5080802@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:38:02 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Borislav Petkov , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu, ming.m.lin@intel.com, "Yu, Fenghua" Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge References: <20120607071531.GA4849@quad> <4FD78BE6.4060207@zytor.com> <20120612190720.GA11137@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <1339529614.31548.104.camel@twins> <20120612194900.GC11137@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <1339576348.31548.114.camel@twins> <4FD89CD3.8050005@zytor.com> <1339601552.8980.47.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1339601552.8980.47.camel@twins> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 34 On 06/13/2012 08:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 06:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 06/13/2012 01:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>>> >>>> But why, do you see a better option for how to tell the kernel to load a >>>> binary blob early at boot? >>> >>> built it in? There's this feature where you can included firmware blobs >>> in the kernel image. It has all the benefits of initrd, since the only >>> time I ever would update initrd if used it, would be when I install a >>> new kernel, which I just built anyway. >>> >> >> You know you can build in an initramfs blob in the kernel, right? In >> fact, there always is one there even if you don't create it explicitly. > > Didn't know that.. > >> Problem solved, methinks. > > Yep. > We have to be a bit careful about it, though; the early initramfs content can't be compressed. It might end up making more sense to make the builtin version of that a separate blob from the main builtin blob. -hpa -- 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/