[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 19.10.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Mike Cloaked:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Genes Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> For info - I have tried to get it working in refind and failed. I added a
>> second initrd line in the boot stanza in refind.conf. But the firmware was
>> not updated.
>>
>> I added to refind sourceforge report[1], perhaps Rod will respond.
>>
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/7da6cd81/
>>
>>
>>
> It would seem that there might be some problems with this microcode update
> apart from the issues with bootloaders. See
> 
> 1) https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/18/218
> 
> 2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1370352

These changes have been done precisely to avoid these problems, the
first link and its responses summarize the situation pretty well.

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