Re: Compile Error on 2.6.17-mm6

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:43:47 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 22:22:16 -0400
> Matt Reuther <mreuther@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Here is the error:
> >   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> >   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
> >   CC      init/version.o
> >   LD      init/built-in.o
> >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xe282): In function 
> > `cpu_request_microcode':
> > arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c:544: undefined reference to `request_firmware'
> > arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xe304):arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c:573: 
> > undefined reference to `release_firmware'
> 
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m
> CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
> 
> So
> 
> config MICROCODE
> 	tristate "/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support"
> 	depends on FW_LOADER
> 
> is not sufficient.  There's a fix for this, but I cannot remember what it
> is.  Help.

That 1-line depends patch fixes the problem for me (on x86-64,
but they are the same in this area).

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~Randy
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