On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 21:10 +0100, Thomas Liske wrote:
> I was able to add some microcode parsing for AMD (see also
> https://github.com/liske/needrestart/issues/150). It will be a
> experimental feature of the upcoming needrestart 3.5 release.
Excellent, thanks for your work on needrestart.
tags 886611 fixed-upstream
thanks
Hi pabs,
I was able to add some microcode parsing for AMD (see also
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/issues/150). It will be a
experimental feature of the upcoming needrestart 3.5 release.
HTH,
Thomas
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon,
On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:00 +0100, Thomas Liske wrote:
> checking if initramfs is newer than uptime might be a good idea
Possibly, but there might be false positives if the initramfs was
regenerated without having updated any files in it. Also, not every
initramfs contains files that are
tags 886611 upstream
thanks
Hi Paul,
checking if initramfs is newer than uptime might be a good idea in
general. A reboot may be also required due to updates of 3rd party
kernel modules (like DKMS) if they are part of the initramfs.
I would avoid to parse the initramfs in needrestart (would
Package: needrestart
Version: 2.11-4
Severity: wishlist
Please detect the need to reboot to apply AMD microcode updates.
The amd64-microcode maintainer suggested that this could be done by
detecting that the initramfs is newer than uptime, and if so, look at
the microcode files in the package
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