On 10/29/2014 09:57 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> on Wed, 2014/10/29 09:41: >> On 10/29/2014 09:35 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >>> On 10/29/2014 08:31 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> >>>> the official ISO file includes intel-ucode, which requires changes to the >>>> bootloader for early microcode. Will we see changes before November >>>> release? >>>> >>> >>> I see al least two options: >>> >>> (1) Write two syslinux/gummiboot entries per each current entry, >>> something like "start archlinux for Intel machine (except virtualized >>> enviroment)", "start archlinux for non-Intel machine". >>> >>> (2) Always load intel-ucode.img for all enviroments, should be ignored >>> in cases where does not care. >> >> In case (2), for keep it simple, we can unpack then intel-ucode.img and >> just always add the .bin inside archiso.img >> >> I guess, should work. Please confirm, I do not have Intel CPU. > > That does not work. Not sure why the microcode is ignored, but I could not > updated this way.
Should work. Are you sure that you are doing the right thing? This file must exist on initramfs: /kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > > What works is concatenating the initramfs images. Something like > > # cat intel-ucode.img initramfs-linux.img > archiso.img > > works perfectly. This is the method described upstream [0]. > > [0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt > Or generate a initcpio hook with: add_file /path/to/GenuineIntel.bin /kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin Concat archive the same effect, weird if this does not works...
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