[PATCH] build in microcode driver on x86

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 22:19:19 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Jackson (ajax at redhat.com) said: 
> > Do we have any way of querying the kernel for firmware requests it will
> > itself make?  I don't think we do, let alone the ability to notice
> > pattern matches like f/m/s.
> 
> There's the MODULE_FIRMWARE tag, but it obviously doesn't handle
> runtime-generated firmware names.

Hmm.  Wrap all firmware in ELF EM_NONE headers, add modinfo sections so
we can pattern match?

- ajax


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