On Slackware-current, I run this script to create a /boot/amd-ucode.cpio file:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
set -x
set -e
LIB=/lib/firmware/amd-ucode/
TDIR=kernel/x86/microcode
CPIO=/boot/amd-ucode.cpio
echo "Create the $CPIO file from the $LIB directory of files"
rm -rf /tmp/amd-ucode-cpio
mkdir -p /tmp/amd-ucode-cpio
cd /tmp/amd-ucode-cpio
mkdir -p $TDIR
find $LIB -type f -name \*bin | sort | xargs cat > $TDIR/AuthenticAMD.bin
find . | cpio --no-absolute-filenames -H newc -o -F $CPIO
exit
echo "Concatenate $CPIO and /boot/initrd-4.4.15.gz creating /boot/initrd.gz"
cat $CPIO /boot/initrd-4.4.15.gz > /boot/initrd.gz
exit
When I use the /boot/amd-ucode.cpio with the Linux-4.8-rc2 kernel the system immediately reboots with no error messages.
The /boot/amd-ucode.cpio file works fine with other kernels version 4.7 and older.
Here is my lilo entry for 4.8-rc2:
Code:
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.8-rc2
initrd = /boot/amd-ucode.cpio
root = /dev/sda8
label = linux-huge-4.8
read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking
# addappend="console=ttyS0,38400"
# Linux bootable partition config ends
Version 4.8-rc1 fails too in the same way.
I tested 4.8-rc2 with the Intel microcode, /boot/intel-ucode.cpio and it boots fine.
The intel microcode can be created by installing the iucode-tool and intel-microcode packages from Slackbuilds.org:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...m/iucode_tool/
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...tel-microcode/
