Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
Lennart, am Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:37:12PM -0400 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > It is only essential if your CPU has a microcode bug that affects you > AND your motherboard maker isn't providing useful bios updates AND you > don't apply bios updates. > > So for a lot of people it is in fact no

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:29:39AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I > consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now > on the this list. Can a non-free package be made essential or > required? It seems there is