user debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 684569 701 quit Dear Ben, thank you for your reply. Tigran, Andi, you can read the whole thread under for #684569 [1]. It would be great, if you could clarify the points below for me. Am Samstag, den 11.08.2012, 13:23 +0100 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 12:24 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 3.5-1~experimental.1 > > Severity: normal > > Control: user debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Control: usertags -1 701 I have no idea why the last two processing control commands were rejected by the Debian BTS [2][3]. Hopefully it will work now. > > testing Linux kernel 3.5-1~experimental.1 [1] from Debian experimental I > > noticed that the module `microcode` is loaded which has according to > > `/var/log/syslog` not been the case with Linux 3.2.y. > [...] > > So to summarize I think, this module should not be loaded automatically > > for this Celeron processor, which is not need for operation. > > This really depends on what operations you want to do, and how buggy the > CPU microcode installed by the BIOS is. If you care that much about it, > you can blacklist it. Understood. Although I do not understand from where the updated microcode is fetched. The only way for desktop users were BIOS upgrades if I remember correctly. Linux does not ship the microcode, does not it. So I do not see what purpose this module has for desktop users. > > Commit 78ff123b [1] > > > > commit 78ff123b05fb15beb1ad670372eea0d299d0b8af > > Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > Date: Thu Jan 26 00:09:13 2012 +0100 > > > > is likely the one introducing this behavior. > > > > $ git describe 78ff123b05fb15beb1ad670372eea0d299d0b8af > > v3.3-rc1-38-g78ff123 > > I think that should actually be backported to wheezy, as I meant to > apply all the CPU auto-loading patches. I never thought that this would be the outcome of my report. ;-) Thanks, Paul [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684569 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags [3] http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/control_at_submit/
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