On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 17:44 +0000, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Burton, Ross [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 9:29 AM
> > To: Kamble, Nitin A
> > Cc: Zanussi, Tom; Hart, Darren; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 07/10] intel-earlyload-microcode-image.bb:
> > new recipe for ealryload microcode image
> > 
> > On 20 June 2014 19:52,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > +inherit core-image
> > 
> > Changing this to just inherit image should remove some of the cruft, but to
> > be honest as this is literally just a cpio containing a single file, why 
> > not use
> > cpio directly?
> > 
> > Ross
> 
> I did thought about it. I wanted to make the microcode blob available like an 
> initrd, which if desired can be changed easily without touching the initrd 
> file.
> 
> I will see if "inherit image" simplifies the recipe further here.

I have to admit that using image generation here does seem like overkill
and that a simpler "do_deploy" style task which just generates the cpio
might be much faster/simpler.

Cheers,

Richard

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