[arch-releng] Changes for early microcode

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 12:35:03 UTC 2014


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.




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