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On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 22:45 +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:57:55AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >> > according to the documentation the option ucode=scan should tell XEN to > >> > look for a microcode update in an uncompressed initrd. > >> > > >> > While I don?t use the Debian kernel the tools to generate the

...ommended and reconcatenating the two. If that works then > >we know there is some incompatibility between iucode-tools's output and > >Xen's cpio reader (could be a bug in either or both I think). > > All right. Can you please provide some commands how to create and > reconcatenate the two initrds? I don?t have any experience with cpio. The reconcatenate bit is easy, just: $ cat initrd.ucode initrd.real > initrd.img With initrd.real extracted above. initrd.ucode creation I'm a little unsure about but something like: $ mkdir initrd.ucode.tree $ cd initrd.ucode.tre...

...ever >commands are recommended and reconcatenating the two. If that works then >we know there is some incompatibility between iucode-tools's output and >Xen's cpio reader (could be a bug in either or both I think). All right. Can you please provide some commands how to create and reconcatenate the two initrds? I don?t have any experience with cpio. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: stse at fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Nam...

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:47:51PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >The reconcatenate bit is easy, just: > $ cat initrd.ucode initrd.real > initrd.img >With initrd.real extracted above. > >initrd.ucode creation I'm a little unsure about but something like: > >$ mkdir initrd.ucode.tree >$ cd initrd.ucode.tree >$ cat /boot/initrd.img | cpio -id >$ f...

> > according to the documentation the option ucode=scan should tell XEN to > > look for a microcode update in an uncompressed initrd. > > > > While I don?t use the Debian kernel the tools to generate the initrd are > > part of Debian. The command ?cpio -i < /boot/initrd.img-4.0.2-Dom0? > > creates the directory structure