Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012, Christoph Egger wrote: > Peter Samuelson writes: > > ...But it does bring up the question of why intel-microcode and > > amd64-microcode are not built on kFreeBSD or the Hurd. Maybe those > > kernels lack a CPU microcode interface? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/compatib

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-08 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Peter Samuelson writes: > ...But it does bring up the question of why intel-microcode and > amd64-microcode are not built on kFreeBSD or the Hurd. Maybe those > kernels lack a CPU microcode interface? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/compatibility-processors.html Though I rather doubt the li

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > And an annoying technical detail makes it suboptimal to add the microcode > > > packages as a recommendation of the firmware-linux-nonfree package. > > ...which is that dpkg does not support architecture-specific relations > > in binary

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > And an annoying technical detail makes it suboptimal to add the microcode > > packages as a recommendation of the firmware-linux-nonfree package. > ...which is that dpkg does not support architecture-specific relations > in binary pack

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 06/11/12 17:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Still, it did lead me to a possible cause: I am not trying to modprobe > > "microcode" in the intel-microcode postinst. This can indeed cause the > > failure to update microcode at p

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 06/11/12 17:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Still, it did lead me to a possible cause: I am not trying to modprobe > "microcode" in the intel-microcode postinst. This can indeed cause the > failure to update microcode at package install time. > > I forget why I didn't do it that way

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 02:35 +0200, Adrian Fita wrote: > On 08/11/12 01:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: > >>> Fair enough, but how about having the linux-image packages recommend th

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Adrian Fita
On 08/11/12 01:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: >>> Fair enough, but how about having the linux-image packages recommend the >>> *microcode packages for installation so users won't get

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: > > Fair enough, but how about having the linux-image packages recommend the > > *microcode packages for installation so users won't get confused by the > > message caused by the m

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: > Fair enough, but how about having the linux-image packages recommend the > *microcode packages for installation so users won't get confused by the > message caused by the module trying to load the file with the microcode > update and not finding it? I don'

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Adrian Fita
On 07/11/12 02:50, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: >> My CPU is an AMD Turion(tm)X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-76, cpu family: 17, so >> it doesn't need the amd64-microcode package which contains microcode >> updates only for cpu families: 10h - 14h & 15h. But

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > >> > # iucode_tool --scan-system -vv > >> > iucode_tool: cpuid kernel driver unavailable, cannot scan system > >> > processor signatures > > > > Hmm, that should happen only if iucode-tool is installed/configured af

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: >> > # iucode_tool --scan-system -vv >> > iucode_tool: cpuid kernel driver unavailable, cannot scan system processor >> > signatures > > Hmm, that should happen only if iucode-tool is installed/configured after > intel-microcode. I've seen this message too, du

Microcode update for Xen in Wheezy (Was: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free)

2012-11-07 Thread Ian Campbell
Dropping users and adding pkg-xen-devel and debian-kernel. On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 15:43 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system > >processor (CPU) microcode

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: > My CPU is an AMD Turion(tm)X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-76, cpu family: 17, so > it doesn't need the amd64-microcode package which contains microcode > updates only for cpu families: 10h - 14h & 15h. But the microcode kernel Family 17 (decimal) is family 11h (he

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Adrian Fita
On 05/11/12 22:12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system > processor (CPU) microcode updates, for x86/i686/x86-64/amd64 systems > that was recently added to [non-free] Wheezy. > > System Processors from Intel an

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system > >processor (CPU) microcode updates, for x86/i686/x86-64/amd64 systems > >that was recently added to [

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode > > packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will > > have to keep the packages instal

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system processor (CPU) microcode updates, for x86/i686/x86-64/amd64 systems that was recently added to [non-free] Wheezy. Alas, this will not work for XE

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode > packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will > have to keep the packages installed, though: as explained above, the > microcode

ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hello all, I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system processor (CPU) microcode updates, for x86/i686/x86-64/amd64 systems that was recently added to [non-free] Wheezy. System Processors from Intel and AMD may need updates to their microcode (sort of a control sequenc