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Add support for multiple, shared, early initrd images. These early
images will be loaded in the order declared, and all will be loaded
before the initrd image.
While many classes of data can be provided by early images, the
immediate use case would be for distributions to provide CPU
microcode to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
Xen has also support to load microcode updates provided as additional
modules by the bootloader.
There are two environment variables provided for declaring the early
images.
* GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK is for the distribution declare
images that are provided by the distribution or installed packages.
If undeclared, this will default to a set of common microcode image
names.
* GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_CUSTOM is for user created images. User
images will be loaded after the stock images.
These separate configurations allow the distribution and user to
declare different image sets without clobbering each other.
This also makes a minor update to ensure that UUID partition labels
stay disabled when no initrd image is found, even if early images are
present.
This is basically a copy of
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| include | ||
| m4 | ||
| po | ||
| tests | ||
| themes/starfield | ||
| unicode | ||
| util | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| ABOUT-NLS | ||
| AUTHORS | ||
| BUGS | ||
| COPYING | ||
| ChangeLog-2015 | ||
| INSTALL | ||
| Makefile.am | ||
| Makefile.util.def | ||
| NEWS | ||
| README | ||
| THANKS | ||
| TODO | ||
| acinclude.m4 | ||
| autogen.sh | ||
| config.h.in | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| coreboot.cfg | ||
| geninit.sh | ||
| gentpl.py | ||
| linguas.sh | ||
README
This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB 2 data and program files. Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information. The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual, accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2. There are a number of important user-visible differences from the first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please see: info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'