On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:24:43PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
Just to be clear, by "works ok" you mean "we request_firmware() for f/m/s and get nothing, and then some time later an initscript loads microcode.dat instead".
sure.
If you actually need the microcode to get out of initramfs, you have already lost, and this move won't change anything.
We've only ever had one case where an updated microcode was required to boot, and that was on pre-production hardware, so I don't think it's really that critical.
Dave