[Gllug] Microcode update

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 13 Jul, Simon Trimmer wrote:

> 
> It's not really for hackers but for administrators... have you looked at the
> length of the errata for the pentium pros? <cue insane cackling>
> 
> I'm rather philosophical about the whole thing now, people can use it or not
> but if Intel released a microcode update for my processors I'd expect they
> had a good reason.
> 
> I think Debian have had it in unstable for a while (data has an non gpl intel
> licence, hence my opinions on debian fanaticism) and I see Redhat 7.3 is
> now shipping it, not sure about SuSE?
> 
   I knew about it from the GLLUG chat, but noticed it first while I was
scanning the standard Debian list, decided to install it and try it out,
then discovered that SuSE had installed it on another box and had already
done the update (there was a note in the syslog). I assumed that the upgrade
was permanent, not just until power-off, but once installed it would
re-check every time the box was re-booted as there may have been a processor
change.

-- 
Chris Bell



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