From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> A while ago I noted to Boris how we could likely do away the odd direct use of the firmware sections on x86 and instead have it use the API directly. This indeed was possible but it required quite a bit of spring cleaning as well and on its way I spotted a small fix. This goes with a new series of tests against built-in firmware as well. Boris has confirmed this also does work for the x86 microcode loader. 0day is happy with the build results. You can find these changes on my git tree branch 20210916-firmware-builtin-v2 [0]. [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20210916-firmware-builtin-v2 Borislav Petkov (1): x86/microcode: Use the firmware_loader built-in API Luis Chamberlain (13): firmware_loader: fix pre-allocated buf built-in firmware use firmware_loader: split built-in firmware call firmware_loader: add a sanity check for firmware_request_builtin() firmware_loader: add built-in firmware kconfig entry firmware_loader: formalize built-in firmware API firmware_loader: remove old DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE() firmware_loader: move struct builtin_fw to the only place used vmlinux.lds.h: wrap built-in firmware support under its kconfig symbol x86/build: Tuck away built-in firmware under its kconfig symbol firmware_loader: rename EXTRA_FIRMWARE and EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR firmware_loader: move builtin build helper to shared library test_firmware: move a few test knobs out to its library test_firmware: add support for testing built-in firmware .../driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst | 8 +- Documentation/x86/microcode.rst | 9 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 3 - arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 14 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 17 --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 9 +- arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 2 + drivers/base/firmware_loader/Kconfig | 39 ++++--- drivers/base/firmware_loader/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile | 43 ++------ .../base/firmware_loader/builtin/lib.Makefile | 32 ++++++ drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/main.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/base/firmware_loader/firmware.h | 17 +++ drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 65 +---------- .../firmware_loader/test-builtin/.gitignore | 3 + .../firmware_loader/test-builtin/Makefile | 18 ++++ drivers/staging/media/av7110/Kconfig | 4 +- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 20 ++-- include/linux/firmware.h | 26 ++--- lib/Kconfig.debug | 34 ++++++ lib/test_firmware.c | 52 ++++++++- .../testing/selftests/firmware/fw_builtin.sh | 69 ++++++++++++ .../selftests/firmware/fw_filesystem.sh | 16 --- tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh | 24 +++++ .../selftests/firmware/fw_run_tests.sh | 2 + 26 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/lib.Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/main.c create mode 100644 drivers/base/firmware_loader/test-builtin/.gitignore create mode 100644 drivers/base/firmware_loader/test-builtin/Makefile create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_builtin.sh -- 2.30.2