Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2016-01-07 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > >>I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole > >>Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2016-01-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole > Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig". Can you send me that 4.3 config please? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH,

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2016-01-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole > Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal "make oldconfig". Can you send me that 4.3 config please? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH,

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2016-01-07 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2016.01.07 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: > >>I just diffed my 4.3 config with the 4.4 config and saw that the whole > >>Microcode stuff was silently dropped by a normal

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:33:48AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Well, BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set in my config and it works just fine... I'm assuming with "works just fine" you mean, you can load microcode. Again, as I explained previously, you should consider moving to the early method

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2015.11.20 at 09:27 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > > It looks like the

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:33:48AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Well, BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set in my config and it works just fine... I'm assuming with "works just fine" you mean, you can load microcode. Again, as I explained previously, you should consider moving to the early method

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > > It looks like the

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-20 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2015.11.20 at 09:27 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > > > initrd was removed this

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > > initrd was removed this merge window. > > Whoops, that shouldnt've happened. Will

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > initrd was removed this merge window. Whoops, that shouldnt've happened. Will debug it tomorrow and provide a fix. Thanks for letting me know. --

x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an initrd was removed this merge window. Why? I've used "echo -n 1 >| /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload" in my init script for years without any issues. -- Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an initrd was removed this merge window. Why? I've used "echo -n 1 >| /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload" in my init script for years without any issues. -- Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > initrd was removed this merge window. Whoops, that shouldnt've happened. Will debug it tomorrow and provide a fix. Thanks for letting me know. --

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > > initrd was removed this merge window. > > Whoops, that shouldnt've happened. Will

Re: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD

2015-11-19 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2015.11.19 at 23:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:43:01PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an > > > initrd was removed this