On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/12/2012 06:04 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I don't care as long as nobody is going to get in the way of an > > urgency=high upload of firmware-nonfree to stable-proposed-updates or > > stable-updates. > > there have been updates of firmware-* packages in the past and more > recently for squeeze too, so i don't think that's a problem. > > > Well, the amd64-microcode has not cleared NEW yet. How should we proceed? > > in my personal opinion, i'd prefere having it integrated into > firmware-nonfree. but it's not my call but the kernel team to decide.
Ok, I've looked into firmware-nonfree. The intel and amd64 microcode packages are not simple static data-drop packages (next upload of amd64-microcode will add the required postinst bits). They have to: 1. Issue sysfs commands to refresh running microcode and update the initramfs when updated/installed. 2. Ensure that the microcode module and processor microcode will be added to the initramfs. This doesn't integrate automatically with firmware-nonfree right now, and I really don't have the time to add support to figure out everything in firmware-nonfree and add these operations to firmware-nonfree right before the freeze, while I have 95% of that work already done and tested for the intel-microcode and amd64-microcode packages. I am just waiting the amd64-microcode package to get past NEW to upload the required changes to intel-microcode. So, please approve the amd64-microcode package ASAP. I will make sure to provide a forward migration path to get both Intel and AMD64 microcodes integrated in firmware-nonfree for at least amd64-microcode, and if we get to a concensus that it makes sense to do so, also for intel-microcode. But I'd really prefer to defer that work to post-freeze. For Wheezy, we can just add suggests or recommends to firmware non-free for the amd64 and i386 arches, pointing to "intel-firmware | amd64-firmware". -- "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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120616180842.ga32...@khazad-dum.debian.net
