On 11/6/2012 10:08 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > What I do know is that lack of microcode update support is a severe issue > IMO.
Debian has survived and functioned very well with good stability, all the while lacking microcode update capability for all these years. This doesn't seem to be a "severe" issue. I'll take a stab at some reasons why this "severe" issue hasn't manifested itself to date: 1. Debian users tend not to buy bleeding edge systems. The systems they buy have been around long enough that the BIOS shipped on them already includes all the microcode updates that have been released. 2. Those that do buy bleeding edge systems likely keep their BIOS up to date. So I'm left assuming that this initiative is the result of more and more Debian users purchasing systems sufficiently new enough that errata are being discovered, and new microcode being issued, after they receive their systems, and these folks aren't flashing their BIOS. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50996821.50...@hardwarefreak.com
