Hi there! On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:04:13 +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:11:54 +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > amd64-microcode: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs (non-free) >> > intel-microcode: Processor microcode data file for Intel CPUs (non-free) >> > iucode-tool: Intel processor microcode tool (contrib) >> >> ...I find a bit strange that we have firmware-*, fonts-*, etc. packages >> but in this case it is the other way around and not microcode-*. Is >> there any specific reason for this? > > Yes, about 10 years of precedence due to "intel-microcode" (yes, it is that > old, and yet most people still don't know it exists...) > > The firmware-* packages actually have some assumptions on how they operate > and interact with the installer, which the *-microcode packages do not > follow (and might not be able to follow in some cases). > > This is likely to be addressed post-Wheezy, but it is a bit more involved > than just renaming the packages. Thank you for the explanation, I really appreciate. And also thank you for having left a possibility for the switch ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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