On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:09:12AM +0300, Nick Riker wrote:
> I am not sure i should post this here since it's about BLFS
> Chapter 3. After LFS Configuration Issues / About Firmware
>
Correct, blfs-dev or blfs-support would be better. But since you
did post it here (and from time to time we all do ;) -
> On a 64bit kernel we don't need to go down the initrd method for early
> microcode update. We only need to add the microcode file to the
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE variable. This will insert the microcode file
> into the kernel image and the kernel during boot will do the rest.
>
More ways than one of solving the problem. If you put a new kernel
on the system, or have more than one LFS system (e.g. current and
next, or current and previous in case you accidentally trash the
current system), the microcode initrd will work on both/all entries
in grub without having to keep/update the old /lib/firmware.
> Device Drivers --->
> Generic Driver Options --->
> -*- Userspace firmware loading support
> (intel-ucode/06-3a-09) External firmware blobs to build into
> the kernel binary
> (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
>
> 06-3a-09 is the microcode file for my intel i5-3570 in this case.
ĸen
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