Hi, This series will add support for microcode update on x86 targets, in light of the recent security issues.
While other distributions use an early initramfs approach to update the microcode as early as possible, in OpenWrt the earliest place where we can do this is preinit. The Intel microcode package is using the source package by Debian, the AMD microcode package is downloaded from the linux-firmware git repository. This was tested on various Intel-based desktops with ancient BIOSes. Once the series is merged into trunk, this could/should be backported into 17.01 and 15.05 without too much hassle. Thanks, Zoltan H Zoltan HERPAI (5): x86: enable microcode loading for Intel and AMD firmware: add microcode package for AMD64 tools: add iucode-tool firmware: add microcode package for Intel packages: intel-microcode: update to 20180108 package/firmware/intel-microcode/Makefile | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../intel-microcode/files/intel-microcode.preinit | 8 ++++ package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk | 9 ++++ package/system/iucode-tool/Makefile | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++ target/linux/x86/config-4.14 | 5 ++- target/linux/x86/config-4.9 | 5 ++- 6 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 package/firmware/intel-microcode/Makefile create mode 100644 package/firmware/intel-microcode/files/intel-microcode.preinit create mode 100644 package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk create mode 100644 package/system/iucode-tool/Makefile -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
