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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-15 10:39:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-15 10:39:22 -0700 |
| commit | 9cf8d6360c1589a97a98313729ed9e5db187f80b (patch) | |
| tree | 6724fb3915f5343800460d98d31528e09a445028 /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | ecc026bff6e8444c6b50dcde192e7acdaf42bf82 (diff) | |
| parent | 4ace2e7a48ab426eaa9745ace4c50c6a7adb3992 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 microcode updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change in this cycle was the separation of the microcode
loading mechanism from the initrd code plus the support of built-in
microcode images.
There were also lots cleanups and general restructuring (by Borislav
Petkov)"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/microcode/intel: Drop orig_sum from ext signature checksum
x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode sanity-checking error messages
x86/microcode/intel: Merge two consecutive if-statements
x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of DWSIZE
x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32
x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation
x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method
x86/microcode/AMD: Issue microcode updated message later
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Remove unused arg of get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_in_initrd
x86/microcode/intel: Use *wrmsrl variants
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup apply_microcode_intel()
x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_intel variable to mc
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_count to num_saved
x86/microcode/intel: Rename local variables of type struct mc_saved_data
x86/microcode/AMD: Drop redundant printk prefix
x86/microcode: Issue update message only once
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt | 25 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt b/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt index d62bea6796da..c956d99cf1de 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt @@ -40,3 +40,28 @@ cp ../microcode.bin kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin (or AuthenticAMD.bin) find . | cpio -o -H newc >../ucode.cpio cd .. cat ucode.cpio /boot/initrd-3.5.0.img >/boot/initrd-3.5.0.ucode.img + +Builtin microcode +================= + +We can also load builtin microcode supplied through the regular firmware +builtin method CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. Here's an example: + +CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y +CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09 amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin" +CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" + +This basically means, you have the following tree structure locally: + +/lib/firmware/ +|-- amd-ucode +... +| |-- microcode_amd_fam15h.bin +... +|-- intel-ucode +... +| |-- 06-3a-09 +... + +so that the build system can find those files and integrate them into +the final kernel image. The early loader finds them and applies them. |