Bug#611133: ITP: iucode-tool -- Intel Processor microcode tool

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>

* Package name    : iucode-tool
  Version         : 0.5
  Upstream Author : Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
* URL             : none yet
* License         : GPL v2 or later
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Intel Processor microcode tool

iucode-tool is a program to manipulate Intel® X86 and X86-64 processor
microcode collections, and to use the kernel facilities to upgrade the
microcode on the system processors.  It replaces the old microcode.ctl
tool.

It can load microcode data files in text and binary format, sort, list
and filter the microcodes contained in these files, write selected
microcodes to a new file in binary format, or upload them to the kernel.

It can create very small, targetted microcode datafiles and use them to
update the online processors' microcode from inside an initramfs image
or very early in the boot process, in order to patch microcode bugs as
soon as possible.

It requires non-free microcode data downloaded directly from Intel or
installed by the intel-microcode package in order to be able to update
the system processors.