Subject: Re: mkimage.sh and cpu microcode updates
From: Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 17:33:08 +0200
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Hi,

are there any updates or comments on this topics || MR ?


TIA,
Thomas


On 05.05.20 22:54, Thomas Liske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05.05.20 14:37, Wolf wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 2020-05-03 23:34:14 +0200, Thomas Liske wrote:
>>> This does *not* help for early boot ucode updates. I think we require a
>>> amd-ucode package simiular to the intel-ucode package. It should be 
>>> possible
>>> since ArchLinux does it the same way[4].
>>>
>>> [4] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/amd-ucode/
>>
>> I can say that using the Arch's way does indeed work. I have my own
>> amd-ucode package (basically rewrite of PKGBUIld to ABUILD) and did not
>> notice any issues.
> 
> in the meantime I have created MR !7527[1] porting the PKGBUILD part 
> into the APKBUILD of linux-firmware to add the amd-ucode package.
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/7527
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Thomas