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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:26:18
Message-Id: CAC=wYCFNkAd7iAuSofH3AoM10EB9ULEuKfHiJ_9fWfqJHAT0Cg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
2 wrote:
3
4 > On Monday, 8 January 2018 04:55:58 GMT Max Zettlmeißl wrote:
5 >
6 > > You can either use an initrd or build the microcode into your kernel
7 > > image. I prefer the latter.
8 >
9 > I'm confused now. How do you build the microcode into the kernel? The only
10 > place I can see to do that in menuconfig is under Device Drivers; there's
11 > no
12 > such field under Firmware.
13 >
14
15 Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options -> Include in-kernel firmware
16 blobs in kernel binary
17
18 which is CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y