Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> on Wed, 2014/10/29 09:41: > On 10/29/2014 09:35 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > > On 10/29/2014 08:31 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > >> Hello everybody, > >> > >> the official ISO file includes intel-ucode, which requires changes to the > >> bootloader for early microcode. Will we see changes before November > >> release? > >> > > > > I see al least two options: > > > > (1) Write two syslinux/gummiboot entries per each current entry, > > something like "start archlinux for Intel machine (except virtualized > > enviroment)", "start archlinux for non-Intel machine". > > > > (2) Always load intel-ucode.img for all enviroments, should be ignored > > in cases where does not care. > > In case (2), for keep it simple, we can unpack then intel-ucode.img and > just always add the .bin inside archiso.img > > I guess, should work. Please confirm, I do not have Intel CPU.
That does not work. Not sure why the microcode is ignored, but I could not updated this way. What works is concatenating the initramfs images. Something like # cat intel-ucode.img initramfs-linux.img > archiso.img works perfectly. This is the method described upstream [0]. [0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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