[meta-intel] [PATCH 2/2] meta-intel.inc: allow disabling of Intel microcode

Kamble, Nitin A nitin.a.kamble at intel.com
Wed Sep 17 13:51:00 PDT 2014


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>The problem with this of course is we can't use it easily with the common
>BSPs and ultimately we want to eliminate as many of the other BSPs as
>possible.
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>What is the exact issue with microcode? How does it break certain systems
>when enabled on the intel common BSPs?

1st there is no boot issue related to microcode. What was reported is a
build issue. His initrd file was not built correctly. And we believe that
it happened because he used older version of poky/oecore. So that is
turning out to be a build setup issue.

Here are the updates on the bug:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6730


Nitin



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