Re: New format Intel microcode...

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Mar 23 2007 - 05:03:54 EST


On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:43 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Li,
>
> > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the
> > > old firmware files to the new format (eg
> > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from
> > > Intel (or otherwise) in this new format?
> > Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a
> > new website. We will announce it when it's ready.
>
> please do _NOT_ use any sub-directories in the request_firmware() call.

it's not a strictly a subdirectory; there is a slash in the "metaname"
the kernel asks for, and you can in userspace see it as subdirectory or
you don't.. that's entirely upto the userspace side :)
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