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| author | Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com> | 2018-01-23 18:06:32 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-01-25 12:46:30 +0100 |
| commit | c508c46e6e3aef7762a214a09cf826711f1e2772 (patch) | |
| tree | 85ee28d9542be743c00273b4c254f22f932c7234 | |
| parent | 7f55c733b6607d6bfc16057641f18280e587cca8 (diff) | |
firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
We've removed the option, so stop talking about it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/microcode.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 6 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst index 7300e66857f8..396cdf591ac5 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/built-in-fw.rst @@ -11,13 +11,8 @@ options: * CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE * CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR -This should not be confused with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, this is for drivers -which enables firmware to be built as part of the kernel build process. This -option, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL, will build all firmware for all drivers -enabled which ship its firmware inside the Linux kernel source tree. - There are a few reasons why you might want to consider building your firmware -into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE though: +into the kernel with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE: * Speed * Firmware is needed for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't diff --git a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt index f57e1b45e628..79fdb4a8148a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt @@ -108,12 +108,11 @@ packages already put them there. ==================== The loader supports also loading of a builtin microcode supplied through -the regular firmware builtin method CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. Only -64-bit is currently supported. +the regular builtin firmware method CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE. Only 64-bit is +currently supported. Here's an example: -CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09 amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d4fc98c50378..e43b0063d864 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1242,9 +1242,9 @@ config MICROCODE CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD in order for the loader to be able to scan the initrd for microcode blobs. - In addition, you can build-in the microcode into the kernel. For that you - need to enable FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL and add the vendor-supplied microcode - to the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE config option. + In addition, you can build the microcode into the kernel. For that you + need to add the vendor-supplied microcode to the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE + config option. config MICROCODE_INTEL bool "Intel microcode loading support" |