Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:28:51 +1000 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Do not select FW_LOADER |
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:29:11PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > The x86 microcode support works just fine without FW_LOADER. In > > fact these days most people load them early in boot so FW_LOADER > > never gets into the picture anyway. > > What's the use case here?
Because MICROCODE is the only thing on my system that pulls it into the kernel.
> Also, I'm working on removing that homegrown get_builtin_firmware() and > use the one in the fw loader: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200408094526.GC24663@zn.tnic
That shouldn't be a problem. That function can simply move under another (hidden) Kconfig option that gets selected by both MICROCODE and FW_LOADER.
Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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