Re: RFC: initramfs-tools support for early firmware loading

2013-04-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 19:23:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates for Intel processors, and ACPI table overrides. This is a very

Re: RFC: initramfs-tools support for early firmware loading

2013-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 19:23:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates for Intel processors, and

RFC: initramfs-tools support for early firmware loading

2013-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates for Intel processors, and ACPI table overrides. This is a very important feature, that we should support as soon as practical. ACPI table overrides