Bug#834261: jessie-pu: package intel-microcode/3.20160714.1~deb8u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 11:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 18:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > I would like to update the intel-microcode packages in stable to address
> > > several critical errata in newer Intel processors, as well as to
> > > properly support the Linux kernel 4.4 and later.
> > > 
> > > The updated packages being proposed in this bug report are identical to
> > > the ones in unstable/testing and jessie-backports, other than
> > > debian/changelog and version numbering.
> > > 
> > > These changes have been tested in unstable since 2016-07-22 and in
> > > testing and jessie-backports since 2016-07-28, without any issues being
> > > reported.
> > > 
> > > This microcode update is very important to get Debian to run in a more
> > > stable way on the newer processors that have TSX enabled, but as usual,
> > > it also fixes other unspecified errata, so it is important even for
> > > processors without TSX.
> > 
> > Please go ahead.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Uploaded.

Flagged for acceptance into p-u.

Regards,

Adam