Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

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

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 07:59, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Non-free is not part of Debian so those components would need to be
> explicitly installed.
> 
> firmware-nonfree is up-to-date in backports (at least, it is in synch
> with testing and unstable).

And so are the microcode packages, which are absolutely required for
stable operation of at least Skylake and Broadwell right now (or your
data is toast due to TSX malfunction or one of the multiple undefined
behavior errata).  

One or two Skylake motherboards have good enough UEFI updates available,
but that's like 1% of them. This should get better in time, of course...
If people would update their firmware frequently in the first place.

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  Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>