Bug#693053: Add Xen microcode update driver for Wheezy
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 07:55 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> severity 693053 important
> quit
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > As discussed in [0] I intend to forward port the Xen support for the
> > microcode driver -- it is very self contained.
>
> Very nice to hear.
I've got a patch pending to push to the repo as well, once I find a
spare moment. Tested it this morning and it seems ok.
>
> > Grave due to the potential for data loss as described in [1].
>
> That says:
>
> | These updates fix bugs/errata that can cause anything from incorrect
> | processing, to code and data corruption, and system lockups.
>
> which seems a little too generic for an RC bug, so I'm lowering
> severity.
ok.
> Apropos of nothing: I think it would be useful to have basic
> information packaged on the presence and severity of known bugs in
> various microcode versions, so that users could tell whether they need
> to get a microcode update without having to learn to enable non-free.
> Getting the existing non-free package working better is still very
> useful without that, of course.
I suspect that the vendors don't like to publish too much about what
goes into these things.
Ian.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00141.html
> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00109.html
>
>
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