On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> but it may need to be more smart; e.g. check the new microcode revisions
> vs currently loaded; to see if there was an update to microcode for this
> system, actually

That would be why I did not do it in the Debian package (yet).  It is
hard to make it fool-proof, and it will be really annoying [to the user]
if the package triggers unnecessary reboots (which will be the *rule* on
older processors that rarely get updates).

If you have good ideas on how to do it, I am listening...

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  Microcode updates require a reboot to apply, but package postinst
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