On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
On 1/13/20, Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de wrote:
Btw, just out of curiosity: why are you using built-in microcode and not the initrd method?
Initrd method is better when it is a kernel intended to be booted on many different computers. Built-in microcode method kernel is tuned for one computer only. It is less hassle that way.
Oh well, you only need to do an initrd which is not that big of a deal.
The built-in method requires you to rebuild the kernel when there's new microcode but new microcode is a relatively seldom occurrence in practice. The last two years putting my statistics completely out-of-whack.
But they should be coming back to normal because there should simply be no more room for microcode patches anymore in the most x86 CPUs out there. :)
So if you're building kernels often, it doesn't really matter if you do initrd or builtin microcode.