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    [PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode · a30a6a2c
    Shaohua Li authored
    Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the
    application 'microcode_ctl' to assist.  We name each ucode file according
    to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping.  In this way we could
    split ucode file as small one.  This has a lot of advantages such as
    selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better
    manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on.
    with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files
    into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into
    small one and later we will release new style data file).  The init script
    should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarTigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
    Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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