[13:12] <nibbon_> what's the special spell to perform an early microcode update? I tried following this https://docs.kernel.org/x86/microcode.html#early-load-microcode but didn't work 
[13:13] <nibbon_> I'm trying to build a initramfs to boostrap a system via tftp
[13:55] <vic-thor> can anyone point me some documentation or something about how the linux-firmware package is created?
[13:55] <vic-thor> all i find are packages which already contain the binaries
[15:34] <ogra> vic-thor, what else would you expect ? it is firmware ... there are no sources available for any of the files in there 
[15:38] <vic-thor> where do they come from, for example
[15:38] <vic-thor> how does it the linux-firmware "official" git gets filtered
[15:38] <vic-thor> which files are included and which not
[15:55] <ogra> i guess from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git 
[15:59] <vic-thor> yes, but how to go from the all whole of that to the "chosen ones" in the ubuntu package
[16:05] <ogra> "chosen ones" ?
[16:07] <ogra> i'm pretty sure the ones in the ubuntu package are from a simple tarball download from that repo (plus perhaps some extra ones added that are proven to be on their way into the kernel.org repo in the near future)
[16:58] <vic-thor> no, the files on the git are much, much more
[16:59] <vic-thor> then yes, there are some extras and some other tweakings, but from the official one thre is pruning for sure
[17:46] <tomreyn> vic-thor: this is more a topic for #ubuntu, not exactly kernel related. see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware for more information on how the package is built.
[17:47] <tomreyn> hmm okay it says it's managed by the kernel team, so i guess asking here is not wrong
[18:58] <klebers> juergh, ^