Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add Kconfig option to remove microcode loading support

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 20.01.2026 10:38, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
> The only dependency here is patch 2 going in before patch 3. Everything else
> can be freely rearranged.

Is this correct? Didn't you say (confirming what I observed elsewhere a little
while back) that there's a complaint when a file listed in the exclusions 
doesn't
exist anymore (which may have been cppcheck, not Eclair, but still breaking CI)?
IOW can patch 4 really be separate from patch 3? Or, if its description was to
be trusted, wouldn't it need to go ahead of what is now patch 3?

> Cheers,
> Alejandro
> 
> Alejandro Vallejo (5):
>   x86/ucode: Add Kconfig option to remove microcode loading
>   xen: Allow lib-y targets to also be .init.o
>   earlycpio: lib-ify earlycpio.c
>   docs/misra: Remove earlycpio.c from the Eclair exclusion list.
>   automation: Disable ucode loading on AMD's analysis run
> 
>  automation/gitlab-ci/analyze.yaml      |  1 +
>  docs/admin-guide/microcode-loading.rst |  2 ++
>  docs/misc/efi.pandoc                   |  2 ++
>  docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc      |  7 ++++---
>  docs/misra/exclude-list.json           |  4 ----
>  xen/Rules.mk                           | 10 +++++-----
>  xen/arch/x86/Kconfig                   | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/amd.c       | 16 +++++++++-------
>  xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/core.c      | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c     | 11 +++++++----
>  xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/private.h   |  3 +++
>  xen/arch/x86/efi/efi-boot.h            |  3 ++-
>  xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c      | 10 ++++++++--
>  xen/common/Makefile                    |  2 +-
>  xen/lib/Makefile                       |  1 +
>  xen/{common => lib}/earlycpio.c        |  0
>  16 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>  rename xen/{common => lib}/earlycpio.c (100%)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 7b3e1b4e848d34c9a5b6634009959a7b9dd42104