On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:44:48AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Looking into this some more, this seems unlikely in Debian because the > microcode packages are in non-free [1] and therefore not available for > Debian users not having enabled non-free repositories > > Because of that the microcode packages are also non-essential, that > means not installed by default even when non-free packages are allowed. > And normal users will never install them by themselves.
Sounds like a problem. They actually fix bugs so it's recommended. BIOSes are not normally updated regularly, so the microcode update gives you a faster path to that. > > So currently I am pretty sure 99,9999 % of Debian users do not have it > installed. > > > With the latest mainline kernel the microcode driver should be automatically > > loaded by CPUID probing through udev. > > How can I find out, if the microcode provided by my BIOS is older than > the one provided by the processor vendor? I am pretty sure, that for > example Intel does not release any updates for the Celeron CPU in my > ASUS Eee PC 701 4G. The newer kernels report the microcode version in /proc/cpuinfo If not you can probably use some tool like x86info. Check version. Load the latest microcode. Compare versions. -Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120813164459.go2...@tassilo.jf.intel.com
