On 12 October 2014 14:28, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Intel released a new microcode update that disables an instruction on > Haswell CPUs. However, Linux doesn't handle this very well and in > combination with our glibc version, this essentially crashes your system. > > The solution is to use the "new" early microcode update mechanism that > was introduced almost two years ago ([1]). This means we need to build > microcode support into the kernel. from that documentation I didn't understand why can't the microcode be part of the standard /boot/initramfs-linux.img in ArchLinux? > [1] > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt# -- damjan
