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 package

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 packages.

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 packages.

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

2012-11-08 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org 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

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 pe...@p12n.org 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?

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

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org 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

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 h...@debian.org 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

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 the

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't

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 module

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 confused

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 the

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 in the

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

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

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 installed,

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 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 and AMD

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