On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 19:23:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the > kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates > for Intel processors, and ACPI table overrides. > > This is a very important feature, that we should support as soon as > practical. ACPI table overrides can massage less-than-stellar firmware into > something usable, and early CPU microcode update are the only way (other > than a BIOS upgrade) to avoid certain CPU defects. > > To supply early firmware data to the kernel, we have to *prepend* an > uncompressed cpio archive to the initramfs image. The initramfs image > itself can be compressed as usual. > > Currently, initramfs-tools has undocumented support for appending data to > the initramfs image. This is now useless. We need to enhance > initramfs-tools to support adding arbritary files to a cpio archive that > needs to be prepended to the initramfs image. > Seems a bit odd that you're sending a mail about initramfs-tools to two mailing lists, none of which are the initramfs-tools maintainer? (Hint: that would be initramfs-tools@packages.debian.org, aka debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) Cheers, Julien
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