Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 12:21 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > The package template system currently only supports one optional > > > > > postinst action, but it wouldn't be hard to extend to

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 12:21 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > The package template system currently only supports one optional > > > > postinst action, but it wouldn't be hard to extend to add others. > > Ok, I tried to ship the microcode

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The package template system currently only supports one optional > > > postinst action, but it wouldn't be hard to extend to add others. Ok, I tried to ship the microcode for amd processors using firmware-nonfree. There are a few problems: 1. firmwa

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 23:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:03 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > On

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 23:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:03 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 15:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes H

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:03 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 15:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > They have to: > > > > > > > > 1. Issue sysfs commands

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:03 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 15:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > > On 06/12/2012 06:04 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wr

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 15:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 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 >

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 15:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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 st

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
sounds all very reasonable to me, thanks Henrique. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ.

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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 f

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
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 sq

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > so what is the point of adding it to firmware-nonfree? > > it would be nice to have everything in one place (= one src package), > than to have things split over several, make the firmware stuff be > updated all at once, and better integrated (by usin

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 08:34 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > On 06/10/2012 04:31 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > The microcode data file for Linux contains the latest microcode > > > definitions > > > for all AMD AMD64 processo

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 06/12/2012 01:34 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > However, amd64-microcode has a different upstream iirc so do the different firmware parts that src:firmware-nonfree builds. > and it would already > have to generate a separate binary package anyway for license reasons, iirc so are the

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/10/2012 04:31 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > The microcode data file for Linux contains the latest microcode definitions > > for all AMD AMD64 processors. > > i'm aware that there's the intel-microcode package, however, why not > integ

Re: Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 06/10/2012 04:31 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The microcode data file for Linux contains the latest microcode definitions > for all AMD AMD64 processors. i'm aware that there's the intel-microcode package, however, why not integrate this into firmware-nonfree (as firmware-amd-microc