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

[Kamble, Nitin A]

On 9/18/14, 9:13 AM, "Hart, Darren" <darren.hart at intel.com> wrote:

>On 9/17/14, 13:51, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:
>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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
>
>Oh great!
>
>So what's the status of this then? Can it be enabled by default?


I see no blockage for enabling by default. But usages like microyocto may
want to disable the feature to save some space. So I am working on make
the the intel microcode feature available as a machine feature, and all
the machines in meta-intel will include the machine feature.

Nitin