Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 06:04 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I don't care as long as nobody is going to get in the way of an
> > urgency=high upload of firmware-nonfree to stable-proposed-updates or
> > stable-updates.
>
> there have been updates of firmware-* packages in the past and more
> recently for squeeze too, so i don't think that's a problem.
>
> > Well, the amd64-microcode has not cleared NEW yet. How should we proceed?
>
> in my personal opinion, i'd prefere having it integrated into
> firmware-nonfree. but it's not my call but the kernel team to decide.
Ok, I've looked into firmware-nonfree.
The intel and amd64 microcode packages are not simple static data-drop
packages (next upload of amd64-microcode will add the required postinst
bits).
They have to:
1. Issue sysfs commands to refresh running microcode and update the
initramfs when updated/installed.
2. Ensure that the microcode module and processor microcode will be added
to the initramfs.
This doesn't integrate automatically with firmware-nonfree right now, and I
really don't have the time to add support to figure out everything in
firmware-nonfree and add these operations to firmware-nonfree right before
the freeze, while I have 95% of that work already done and tested for the
intel-microcode and amd64-microcode packages. I am just waiting the
amd64-microcode package to get past NEW to upload the required changes to
intel-microcode.
So, please approve the amd64-microcode package ASAP. I will make sure to
provide a forward migration path to get both Intel and AMD64 microcodes
integrated in firmware-nonfree for at least amd64-microcode, and if we get
to a concensus that it makes sense to do so, also for intel-microcode.
But I'd really prefer to defer that work to post-freeze.
For Wheezy, we can just add suggests or recommends to firmware non-free for
the amd64 and i386 arches, pointing to "intel-firmware | amd64-firmware".
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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