Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > On 29/09/2012 12:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >If you want to use non-modular, built-in microcode, the documentation of > >iucode-tool does explain how to trigger the microcode reload after boot. You > >will have to add it to your system yourse

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Eric Valette
On 29/09/2012 12:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: If you want to use non-modular, built-in microcode, the documentation of iucode-tool does explain how to trigger the microcode reload after boot. You will have to add it to your system yourself. Fair enough. Already done. However, during

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > On 29/09/2012 03:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >1. No html, please. > > > >non-initrd is supported. Read the package documentation for the details. > > I did. I do not want to compile microcode tool as a module because Currently using microco

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-29 Thread Eric Valette
On 29/09/2012 03:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: 1. No html, please. non-initrd is supported. Read the package documentation for the details. I did. I do not want to compile microcode tool as a module because module loading juts slows down the boot process and contrarilly to many o

Re: Processor microcode update packages

2012-09-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Reading the thread about microcode, I wonder why […] > 1. No html, please. And, especially, no /invalid/ HTML, please. […] -- Advocating the judici

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

2012-09-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > > > > > > > Reading the thread about microcode, I wonder why > there is no more any /etc/init.d/microcode.ctl equivalent for > people like building their own kernel without initrd. > > -- eric > > >

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

2012-09-28 Thread Eric Valette
Reading the thread about microcode, I wonder why there is no more any /etc/init.d/microcode.ctl equivalent for people like building their own kernel without initrd. -- eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

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

2012-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 13, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > The main problem I see is that there seem to be essentially two types of > packages in non-free right now, namely those that contain firmware/microcode > (etc) and are crucial for correctly working hardware and the rest. Yes, this was duly noted at the time th

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

2012-09-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 13:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, 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-fre

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

2012-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 13 sep 12, 11:29:39, 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 essen

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

2012-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> > Also, we should mention somewhere (the install documentation?) that > >> > non-free should be enabl

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

2012-09-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 11:29:39, 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 really abs

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

2012-09-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Also, we should mention somewhere (the install documentation?) that >> > non-free should be enabled to install microcode fixes which may be >> > cri