On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:48:58PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > On 03/25/2015 09:19 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > For me, the first question is: do we need early microcode loading > > (for CPU microcode) ? The process looks comlicated, and I did not > > immediately grok everything. > > I believe that I read somewhere that early microcode loading is the only way > to get it to load on some (or all) Haswell CPU's due to some issue occouring > when using the "normal" microcode loading method. > OK. I suggest that we deal with those separately within intel (unless and until CPU microcode has to be loaded early).
At the moment I'm starting to _think_ about how this can be achieved in LFS, then I'll sketch out my suggestion. I'll leave the details of that part for you. Meanwhile, I'm sure that there will be a lot of "could be better" parts in my first draft - I still think longingly of the days when most firmware was in the kernel :) ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
