[PATCH] build in microcode driver on x86

[Dave Jones]

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

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