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> retitle -1 should not install CPU microcode on virtualized systems
Bug #1036523 [src:hw-detect] should not enable non-free-firmware on virtualized
systems
Changed Bug title to 'should not install CPU microcode on virtualized systems'
from 'should not enable non-fre
Cyril Brulebois (2023-05-22):
> I'm willing to consider tweaking (3), making it conditional.
[…]
> Since it's filed at severity normal I think I'll stick to my initial
> assessment which was: adjust hw-detect during the Trixie release cycle,
> and consider cherry-picks for Bookworm, once we get
Control: retitle -1 should not install CPU microcode on virtualized systems
Cyril Brulebois (2023-05-22):
> For the record: non-free-firmware can be enabled because (1) the kernel logs
> firmware requests, (2) available hardware matches modalias information, (3)
> CPU matches one with microcode.
On May 22, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> For the record: non-free-firmware can be enabled because (1) the kernel logs
> firmware requests, (2) available hardware matches modalias information, (3)
> CPU matches one with microcode.
>
> (1) and (2) definitely make sense in a virtualized system as well:
Hi,
Marco d'Itri (2023-05-22):
> When bookworm is installed on a virtualized system, the non-free-firmware
> component will be enabled even if this is not needed: firmwares cannot be
> loaded on virtualized systems because guests usually lack direct access to
> the hardware.
For the record: non-
Source: hw-detect
Version: 1.155
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
When bookworm is installed on a virtualized system, the non-free-firmware
component will be enabled even if this is not needed: firmwares cannot
be loaded on virtualized systems because guests usually lack direct
access to the hardware
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