(I kind of hope this starts a flame war large enough to embarrass the corporate culprits into behaving themselves about this. Apologies in advance when I step on toes.)
I was hoping that AMD was not going to have the license and non-visibility issue that plagues the Intel processor microcode updates. But I find this original announcement from when Henrique made the updater tool available: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00109.html And that shoots that dream. So, (1) This requires enabling two repositories that I have been avoiding enabling, contrib and non-free. That means I have to watch the repository more carefully when using apt-cache search or synaptic to look for new tools, right? Or can we just enable those two repositories long enough to load Henrique's tool and the microcode updates, then disable them again? (2) Are there any CPU manufacturers who are not plagued by this ultimate refusal to let computer owners actually own their computers? How do the ARM manufacturers do? (2a) Is debian running on any of the open core CPUs? (I don't remember any evidence of such, but maybe I just missed it?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caar43in8fkrxshhzjdehgfkep2htycwjoxexewrfayrrvzm...@mail.gmail.com
