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

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 29.10.2014 um 15:35 schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
> On 10/29/2014 11:02 AM, 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
> 
> This does not look good. archiso.img is compressed, while
> intel-ucode.img is uncompressed.

While this does work fine, it breaks lsinitcpio. The correct solution is
to simply add two initrds to all syslinux and gummiboot configuration
files, just like the wiki says (and add the ucode.img as the first one).



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