Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-11 Thread Thomas Lange
I've pointed upstream to this patch and asked if upstream likes to include it or to make micorcode loading more generic. -- regards Thomas

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2017-09-10 20:49, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Philipp Kern wrote: On 09/10/2017 02:32 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > 3) Add a patch to dracut.sh (/usr/bin/dracut) because intel-microcode > uses the .initramfs suffix for the ucode files where it requests early > loading.

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi! I've tested Philipp's proposed changes on an up-to-date Debian sid that's affected by this problem, and it seems to work just fine here: * before: kernel: microcode: sig=0x40651, pf=0x40, revision=0x1c * after: kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x20, date = 2017-01-2

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 09/10/2017 02:32 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > 3) Add a patch to dracut.sh (/usr/bin/dracut) because intel-microcode > > uses the .initramfs suffix for the ucode files where it requests early > > loading. Given that hostonly is the default for dracut, onl

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 09/10/2017 02:32 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > 3) Add a patch to dracut.sh (/usr/bin/dracut) because intel-microcode > uses the .initramfs suffix for the ucode files where it requests early > loading. Given that hostonly is the default for dracut, only including > microcode for the machine it is cur

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: dracut Version: 045+132-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: h...@debian.org dracut supports early loading of microcode but makes assumptions about paths that do not match the packaging in Debian. Hence the microcode updates are skipped altogether on platforms where the intel-microcode pac