Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> on Wed, 2014/10/29 11:28: > On 10/29/2014 09:57 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > > 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. > > Should work. Are you sure that you are doing the right thing? > > This file must exist on initramfs: /kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
Yap. > > 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 > > > > Or generate a initcpio hook with: > > add_file /path/to/GenuineIntel.bin /kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin I tried exactly this. Did not work for. Please prove me wrong! I would prefer it that way. ;) > Concat archive the same effect, weird if this does not works... Don't know... -- 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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