Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:27:54AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> What about: "... microcode in (uncompressed) cpio format followed by the
> (possibly compressed) initrd image", to clarify this distinction?

Meh.

> What about something more fancy, such as
> 	iucode_tool -v /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/ -S $DSTDIR/GenuineIntel.bin
> ?

Why, because fancy is better? And simple is not good enough?

The less we rely on special tools for kernel stuff, the better.

> Maybe specify here that this works using the firmware infrastructure,
> therefore the microcode will be loaded from /lib/firmware/ ? Basically the
> same terms apply for this method as for the builtin microcode you describe
> next.

The distro package already installs it into /lib/firmware but ok, I'll
note the path explicitly.

Thx.

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