[PATCH] build in microcode driver on x86

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:49:57 -0500, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:17:38PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

>  > It doesn't really gain anything from being static, aside from requiring
>  > odd udev rules and/or init scripts to load it.

> The driver will do a request_firmware, but if we build the driver in,
> we'll be in the initrd, where that file won't exist.
> To make it work, we'll either have to..

A trick exists to go around it:
 http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.6.27-204396-5.diff

If you recall, libusual has the same problem if it's built in.

-- Pete