[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/5] firmware: add microcode package for AMD64

[Zoltan HERPAI]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

> On 01/17/2018 08:41 PM, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu>
>> ---
>>  package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk
>>
>> diff --git a/package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk b/package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..2dfe7b0
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/package/firmware/linux-firmware/x86.mk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
>> +Package/amd64-microcode = $(call Package/firmware-default,AMD64 CPU microcode)
>> +define Package/amd64-microcode/install
>> +	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/lib/firmware/amd-ucode
>> +	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin $(1)/lib/firmware/amd-ucode
>> +	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin $(1)/lib/firmware/amd-ucode
>> +	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin $(1)/lib/firmware/amd-ucode
>> +endef
>> +$(eval $(call BuildPackage,amd64-microcode))
>> +
>
> These microcodes are still from 2016_03_16, Debian already ships some
> more recent versions which they got from Suse.
>
> Should we upgrade the linux-firmware package to the most recent version
> after these new microcodes are added and do the same for 17.01 and 15.05?
>
> See here for the Debain changelog:
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20171205.1_changelog

Yes, this was discussed on IRC. My impression was that the linux-firmware 
git repo should be doing better than the distros in the first place, but 
looks like that's not the case, so I'll move to use the amd64-microcode 
from Debian.

Regards,
-w-