On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> You can see why an OS distributor would be stuck in this situation,
> though. If the microcode updates are installed by default, Debian is
> taking responsibility for their effect (in the sense of receiving bug
> reports and providing updates when appr
> At least when updates come through the BIOS the OS distributor does
> not have to be involved. The non-free packages also allow users to
> use the updates from Intel without too much fuss when they want them.
One alternative would be to offer a downloader.
Just hiding them from the user is not
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:44:48AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Looking into this some more, this seems unlikely in Debian because the
>> microcode packages are in non-free [1] and therefore not available for
>> Debian users not having enabled non-free repositories
>>
>> Becaus
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