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 > > -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Ministry - Fear (Is Big Business) Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg -- 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/1352737070.27833.293.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
