On 07/10/2013 02:29 AM, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
>> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:24 PM
>> Implement it per Linux kernel Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
>> (from v3.11-rc0):
[...]
> This patch works fine with one microcode blob in binary format. There are 
> situations that the microcode is not delivered in one blob in binary format:
> 
> First, each microcode patch is one file instead all microcode patches are in 
> one big blob. Secondly, old delivered microcode file is in ascii format.
> 
> To handle those formats, additional code needs to convert the formats into 
> one big binary microcode blob. I'm not sure if we should consider the code 
> and if we should put the code in dracut.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Fenghua
> 


$ ls /lib/firmware/amd-ucode
microcode_amd.bin  microcode_amd_fam15h.bin  microcode_amd_solaris.bin
$ ls /lib/firmware/intel-ucode
06-03-02  06-06-00  06-07-02  06-08-0a  06-0b-04  06-0f-06  06-16-01  06-1c-02
06-25-02  06-2d-07  0f-01-02  0f-02-09  0f-04-03  0f-04-0a
06-05-00  06-06-05  06-07-03  06-09-05  06-0d-06  06-0f-07  06-17-06  06-1c-0a
06-25-05  06-2f-02  0f-02-04  0f-03-02  0f-04-04  0f-06-02
06-05-01  06-06-0a  06-08-01  06-0a-00  06-0e-08  06-0f-0a  06-17-07  06-1d-01
06-26-01  06-3a-09  0f-02-05  0f-03-03  0f-04-07  0f-06-04
06-05-02  06-06-0d  06-08-03  06-0a-01  06-0e-0c  06-0f-0b  06-17-0a  06-1e-04
06-2a-07  0f-00-07  0f-02-06  0f-03-04  0f-04-08  0f-06-05
06-05-03  06-07-01  06-08-06  06-0b-01  06-0f-02  06-0f-0d  06-1a-04  06-1e-05
06-2d-06  0f-00-0a  0f-02-07  0f-04-01  0f-04-09  0f-06-08

Also, for [[ $hostonly ]], we only want to add the current running CPU 
microcode.

Also, why does it have to be a separate cpio? Doesn't it work, if the files are
in the normal, single initramfs?
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