587422 – sys-boot/grub: use microcode initrd if present

Bug 587422 - sys-boot/grub: use microcode initrd if present

Summary: sys-boot/grub: use microcode initrd if present

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 579674

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Mike Gilbert

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Reported:	2016-06-28 16:15 UTC by Craig Andrews
Modified:	2016-06-28 16:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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 ***