[LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

[Corey Osgood]

joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> Quoting Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>:
>
>   
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Peter Stuge wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I think we need to make it configurable.
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct
>>>> microcode update for your CPU to be present, no matter what CPU you
>>>> put in a socket.
>>>>         
>>> (Actually no, not always.)
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> We should be able to do the same.
>>>>         
>>> I agree, but we should also try to be even more flexible. I think we
>>> should allow inclusion of 0<=n<=all microcode updates. Definately an
>>> advanced option, but still.
>>>       
>> Yep, that's what I meant. It's fine if the default is "all microcode
>> updates", but there should be an option for advanced users to only use
>> the one(s) you really want or need in order to save time and space.
>>
>>
>> Uwe.
>>
>>     
> That makes perfect sense.....I like the advanced option idea:-)
>
> Thanks - Joe

This seems like it would get very messy, very quickly. The only way I
can come up with to do it is #if's for every single ID, perhaps in some
intel_custom folder, so it doesn't make a mess of the existing stuff.

Anyways, I'll get on top of testing this weekend, I have slot 1 (440zx),
socket 370 (i810), and socket 479 (i830) boards I can test with,
assuming they all still work. If those work, I'll bet the farm that the
rest of them do. Everything passes abuild, btw.

-Corey