I have strongly mixed feelings about installing intel-microcode by default. Of course it's good to have the latest microcode bugfixes. What worries me is that Intel provides no release notes at all. They didn't even put up a warning for the update that disables the TSX instruction. Removing an instruction while processes are already running is of course highly problematic, see bug #1370352.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386257 Title: intel-microcode should be installed by default, when the CPU is GenuineIntel Status in intel: New Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: intel-microcode should be installed by default on the bare-metal systems which are running on GenuineIntel CPUs, by the installers. Similarly other microcode packages for other CPUs brands should be considered for inclusion (e.g. amd64-microcode). I hope that ubuntu-drivers-common can gain ability to detect cpu series and/or vendors, packages that provide microcodes similarly declare support for cpu series and/or vendors, the microcode packages are shipped on the CDs in the pool directory, and installed on to the target machines as part of the installation. This should help with rapid correction of bugs and behaviour of the CPUs in the field. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1386257/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
