Bug#713030: linux-image-3.9: [3.2->3.9] Warnings of CPU intel-microcode not found

["Eugenio M. Vigo" <emvigo@gmail.com>]

OK, I see. This has been quite educational for me, so thank you for your reply.

I think I'll submit a wishlist "bug" to the debian-installer so that the user is notified during installation whether installing the CPU microcode package is recommended or not. If data loss may occur without having the updated microcode installed, I think it may be worth having the installer telling you.

2013/6/22 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 01:13 +0200, Eugenio M. Vigo wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to get rid of the warning, mainly because I don't know whether
> it is of importance or not. My concern is that this didn't happen with
> the 3.2 kernel, so maybe there is a way to avoid installing that
> non-free package.

Yes, there is a way to avoid installing that non-free package: do
nothing.

The kernel didn't previously actively try to load updated CPU microcode,
and now it does.  I think this warning is correct behaviour: CPU bugs
can cause data loss, and Debian promises not to hide problems.  And your
CPU already runs non-free microcode, so installing the updated microcode
package doesn't become any more dependent on it.  As always, you have
the choice whether or not to install non-free software.  If you want a
kernel that takes that choice away, there is always linux-libre.

Ben.

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