Re: Disabling early microcode, because kernel does not support it. CONFIG_MICROCODE_[AMD|INTEL]_EARLY!=y

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On zo, 2016-03-06 at 22:02 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> The functionality is not disabled in the kernel.  It was merged into the
>>> main driver and the config options no longer exist.  If you aren't seeing
>>> early ucode updates then dracut needs to be updated to deal with 4.4 and
>>> newer kernels.
>>
>> Dracut needs to stop parsing config files (as it apparently does).
>> Kconfig symbols can (and will) change from release to release. They get
>> dropped, change meaning, change from tristate to bool or vice versa,
>> etc, whenever the kernel developers think that's needed.
>>
>> I do not know what dracut is trying to achieve here, but there has got
>> to be a better way to do it.
>
> There is.  Dracut has been fixed for a while.  Apparently it just
> wasn't backported to f22.

I'm confused. I see microcode updates applied before initramfs being
unpacked, so how is dracut doing this? This is on Fedora 23.

[chris@f23m Downloads]$ dmesg | grep -i microcode
[chris@f23m Downloads]$ dmesg | grep -i microcode
[    0.000000] microcode: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision
0x29, date = 2013-06-12
[    0.057384] microcode: CPU1 microcode updated early to revision
0x29, date = 2013-06-12
[    0.060449] microcode: CPU2 microcode updated early to revision
0x29, date = 2013-06-12
[    0.063358] microcode: CPU3 microcode updated early to revision
0x29, date = 2013-06-12
[    0.555373] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555389] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555450] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555515] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555580] microcode: CPU4 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555605] microcode: CPU5 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555680] microcode: CPU6 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555745] microcode: CPU7 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x29
[    0.555958] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01
<tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Oruba
[    1.603190] [drm] Loading TURKS Microcode
[chris@f23m Downloads]$ dmesg | grep -i initramfs
[    0.147888] Unpacking initramfs...


On a different system the timing is reversed:

[chris@f23s ~]$ dmesg | grep -i microcode
[    1.128387] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x406c3, pf=0x1, revision=0x35e
[    1.138941] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x406c3, pf=0x1, revision=0x35e
[    1.149739] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x406c3, pf=0x1, revision=0x35e
[    1.152059] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x406c3, pf=0x1, revision=0x35e
[    1.154580] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01
<tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Oruba
[chris@f23s ~]$ dmesg | grep -i initramfs
[    0.267684] Unpacking initramfs...


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Chris Murphy
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