Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/17/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we want to eliminate as many of the other BSPs as possible. What is the exact issue with microcode? How does it break certain systems

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-18 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
On 9/18/14, 9:13 AM, Hart, Darren darren.h...@intel.com wrote: On 9/17/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we want to eliminate as many of the other BSPs as possible. What is

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-18 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/18/14, 9:18, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: On 9/18/14, 9:13 AM, Hart, Darren darren.h...@intel.com wrote: On 9/17/14, 13:51, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Burton, Ross
On 17 September 2014 20:44, nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: As per request from Tom, allow disabling of the Intel microcode feature for meta-intel BSPs. If one adds this line to local.conf while build a meta-intel BSP, the microcode feature will be disabled for the build target.

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Tom, There is an issue with this commit. I will send another commit for this purpose. Thanks, Nitin On 9/17/14, 12:44 PM, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: From: Nitin A Kamble nitin.a.kam...@intel.com As per request from Tom, allow disabling of the Intel microcode feature for

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
I agree with Tom here - microcode should be opt-in at the machine level. Ross Then it can be implemented as a MACHINE_FEATURE. TomĀ¹s need is bit different though. He want it kind of a distro feature, so that poky-tiny will not pick it up. Nitin --

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Hart, Darren
On 9/17/14, 13:23, Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kam...@intel.com wrote: No, we had this discussion. These BSPs need to build out of the box without special flags to disable feature that would otherwise break it on supported systems. If Microcode can't be enabled generically and safely, then it needs

Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

2014-09-17 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common BSPs and ultimately we want to eliminate as many of the other BSPs as possible. What is the exact issue with microcode? How does it break certain systems when enabled on the intel common BSPs? 1st there is no boot issue