Re: [PATCH] x86: Unbreak early processor microcode loading

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 18 2015 - 06:04:11 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:09:12PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> I can't reproduce your early-loading case with this same config; I suspect
> your udev is loading the firmware which is available in the initramfs, or
> it's being loaded later from the rootfs non-early.

Yeah, you're right. I was able to reproduce it after disabling the
postinst script which adds the microcode to the initrd.

> I find the changes I posted earlier fix this. Maybe I'm missing something
> still?

I don't like the ifdeffery in your solution and would like to try to fix
it in a cleaner way. Unless you come up with a better solution first.

Thanks.

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Boris.

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