[arch-dev-public] Reorganizing CPU ucode updates

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sun Jan 8 16:34:02 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> One issue is package naming: We could stick with the usual "source
> tarball == package name" paradigm, but that means that the Intel package
> is named 'microcode', while the AMD package is named 'amd-ucode' (like
> it is commited to SVN now). I would prefer calling the Intel package
> 'intel-ucode', which would be consistent with the AMD version and also
> match the name of the /lib/firmware/ subdirectory.

I agree with using intel-ucode, having them named differently would be
confusing.

-t


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