Bug 587422

Summary:	sys-boot/grub: use microcode initrd if present
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Andrews <candrews>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, candrews
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Craig Andrews gentoo-dev

2016-06-28 16:15:52 UTC

Grub should include a microcode initrd if one is present to facilitate early boot intel microcode updates.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1020774-highlight-.html

Arch Linux already does this. Here is their patch to grub: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/grub/trunk/grub-intel-ucode.patch

Comment 1 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev

2016-06-28 16:21:06 UTC

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1785

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-06-28 16:24:40 UTC

I'm not patching this into Gentoo.

If you can convince upstream to accept a patch, I'm happy to backport.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579674 ***