Bug#834261: jessie-pu: package intel-microcode/3.20160714.1~deb8u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 18:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I would like to update the intel-microcode packages in stable to address
> several critical errata in newer Intel processors, as well as to
> properly support the Linux kernel 4.4 and later.
> 
> The updated packages being proposed in this bug report are identical to
> the ones in unstable/testing and jessie-backports, other than
> debian/changelog and version numbering.
> 
> These changes have been tested in unstable since 2016-07-22 and in
> testing and jessie-backports since 2016-07-28, without any issues being
> reported.
> 
> This microcode update is very important to get Debian to run in a more
> stable way on the newer processors that have TSX enabled, but as usual,
> it also fixes other unspecified errata, so it is important even for
> processors without TSX.

Please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam