For early microcode loading, there is no need to install the individual
microcode files to /lib/firmware - So make that optional.
Let the option default to y for backwards compatibility, and select it from
iucode-tool as the init script relies on the /lib/firmware files.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Includes MDS mitigation (RIDL, Fallout, Zombieload), INTEL-SA-00223
Move to the Intel github repo as this release is not yet available on
downloadmirror.intel.com.
Update license hash because of copyright year and DOS/UNIX newlines change.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The intel microcode is a proprietary package which provides a data file
used to correct processors errors.
It was originally sent by Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
[Peter: set _LICENSE_FILES]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
