Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:46:11 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On 1/13/20, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > Btw, just out of curiosity: why are you using built-in microcode and not > > the initrd method? > > Initrd method is better when it is a kernel intended to be booted > on many different computers. Built-in microcode method kernel is > tuned for one computer only. It is less hassle that way.
Oh well, you only need to do an initrd which is not that big of a deal.
The built-in method requires you to rebuild the kernel when there's new microcode but new microcode is a relatively seldom occurrence in practice. The last two years putting my statistics completely out-of-whack.
But they should be coming back to normal because there should simply be no more room for microcode patches anymore in the most x86 CPUs out there. :)
So if you're building kernels often, it doesn't really matter if you do initrd or builtin microcode.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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