On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 09:27 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 11:35 +0000, Stuart Weaver wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just made a fresh Yocto/meta-intel repository and created an > > image based on core-image-sato for valleyisland-32. However when > > booting, the kernel was panicking as it could not load /initrd. > > Looking at the image created I found that initrd was not being > > included. After comparing with an older version of the repositories I > > had, I found that commenting out the following lines in > > meta-intel/conf/machine/include/meta-intel.inc solved the issue: > > > > # include the user space intel microcode loading support in the > > generated images. > > # MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append = " intel-microcode > > iucode-tool" > > > > # For the early boot time kernel microcode loading support, > > # merge the microcode data in the final initrd image. > > # INITRD_prepend = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/microcode.cpio " > > > > I don't know anything bout intel microcode, and hence would it be > > possible to explain/point me to some place that has more information > > about the microcode and how to configure it to create the initrd > > correctly? > > > Hi, > > This shouldn't be your problem - the recent microcode commits are to > blame. I pulled them in on the condition that there would be an opt-out
Sorry, my bad, the microcode commits probably aren't to blame, looks like it was just a case of using a stale poky, as noticed by Ross and mentioned by Nitin in the bug. Please try the suggestions in the bug. Tom > mechanism available asap. If this can happen on a per-machine basis, it > should actually be an opt-in only feature. > > I've just filed a bug for this: > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6730 > > If this isn't just a case of a simple bug, I'll revert the patchset. > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > Best Regards, > > Stuart > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud > > service. > > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > -- _______________________________________________ meta-intel mailing list meta-intel@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel