Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 13, Wolodja Wentland deb...@babilen5.org wrote: The main problem I see is that there seem to be essentially two types of packages in non-free right now, namely those that contain firmware/microcode (etc) and are crucial for correctly working hardware and the rest. Yes, this was duly

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 11:29:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now on the this list. Can a non-free package be made essential or required? It seems there is really

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Also, we should mention somewhere (the install documentation?) that non-free should be

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 13 sep 12, 11:29:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now on the this list. Can a non-free package be made essential

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 13:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now on the this list. Can a non-free