tag 689042 + wontfix severity 689042 wishlist retitle 689042 requires modular microcode driver for autoload on boot
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Eric Valette wrote: > he old microcode.ctl package did at least provide an init script to perform > it. Why > not iucode-tool? Why should it? It is the kernel's job. An initscript would just slow the boot. And the wheezy kernel does its job better when the microcode driver is a module. For more details, please install the intel-microcode package, and read the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/intel-microcode. Basically, make sure /lib/firmware is in the root filesystem (duh), make sure the microcode driver is a _module_, and make sure it auto-loads (or add it to /etc/modules to force it to load manually). That's it. If you don't want to use the intel-microcode package, tell iucode-tool to install the microcode you need (iucode-tool -S -K) for the kernel. You are advised to rm /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/* before you run iucode-tool -S -K <new microcode data file> otherwise you may use microcode Intel decided to recall. And no, I have absolutely no idea why it happens. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
