Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 2014/10/23 19:40: > 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. Works perfectly here: Just concatenating the ucode and default initramfs into one file, then boot that with grub. Details can be found here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42354#comment129209 May be worth it to change mkinitcpio to combine the two files... > from that documentation I didn't understand why can't the microcode be > part of the standard /boot/initramfs-linux.img in ArchLinux? Just tested, that does not work. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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