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 enabled to install microcode fixes which may be >> > critical to maintain the system stability. >> >> Could you elaborate on this please? I have been running systems just fine >> even though microcode.ctl (and corresponding microcode) was not installed and >> a look at microcode.ctl's popcon [0] confirms that a majority of users do the >> same. > [...] > > System stability depends critically on the presence of microcode that is as > up-to-date as required to cover all serious bugs on all features of the > processor that your workload uses.
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 absolutely no-reason other than non-freeness for not installing this by default. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipbi3pr0.fsf...@kosh.rath.org
