Subject: Re: mkimage.sh and cpu microcode updates
To: Wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
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From: Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>
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Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 22:54:59 +0200
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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