Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 06/10/2012 04:31 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > The microcode data file for Linux contains the latest microcode definitions
> > for all AMD AMD64 processors.
>
> i'm aware that there's the intel-microcode package, however, why not
> integrate this into firmware-nonfree (as firmware-amd-microcode or
> something) and keep all this stuff at one place?
intel-microcode will be some trouble to integrate, at least at this
time, so I'd rather not do it for Wheezy. amd64-microcode could be
integrated into firmware-nonfree without trouble.
However, amd64-microcode has a different upstream, and it would already
have to generate a separate binary package anyway for license reasons,
so what is the point of adding it to firmware-nonfree?
We could make firmware-nonfree "recommend intel-microcode |
amd64-microcode" on [i386, amd64], though. That sounds like a good
idea to help people install the microcode updates.
After all, just about every new Intel and AMD processor has microcode
patches issued, and both people and vendors are still as bad as they
have always been at keeping their BIOS/EFI up-to-date...
--
"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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