[arch-releng] [PATCH 1/1] concatenate initramfs images for early microcode update

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:02:38PM +0100, list at eworm.de wrote:
> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
> ---
>  configs/releng/build.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configs/releng/build.sh b/configs/releng/build.sh
> index 07ff911..8b6beee 100755
> --- a/configs/releng/build.sh
> +++ b/configs/releng/build.sh
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ make_customize_airootfs() {
>  # Prepare kernel/initramfs ${install_dir}/boot/
>  make_boot() {
>      mkdir -p ${work_dir}/iso/${install_dir}/boot/${arch}
> -    cp ${work_dir}/${arch}/airootfs/boot/archiso.img ${work_dir}/iso/${install_dir}/boot/${arch}/archiso.img
> +    cat ${work_dir}/${arch}/airootfs/boot/intel-ucode.img ${work_dir}/${arch}/airootfs/boot/archiso.img > ${work_dir}/iso/${install_dir}/boot/${arch}/archiso.img

Does this actually work? archiso.img is XZ compressed -- I don't think
the kernel will read the real initramfs properly.

>      cp ${work_dir}/${arch}/airootfs/boot/vmlinuz-linux ${work_dir}/iso/${install_dir}/boot/${arch}/vmlinuz
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.2