Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS onSandyBridge

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 06:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 01:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >>
> >> But why, do you see a better option for how to tell the kernel to load a
> >> binary blob early at boot? 
> > 
> > built it in? There's this feature where you can included firmware blobs
> > in the kernel image. It has all the benefits of initrd, since the only
> > time I ever would update initrd if used it, would be when I install a
> > new kernel, which I just built anyway.
> > 
> 
> You know you can build in an initramfs blob in the kernel, right?  In
> fact, there always is one there even if you don't create it explicitly.

Didn't know that..

> Problem solved, methinks.

Yep.
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