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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** ucode packaging
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:50:00 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1910031347330.13160@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be8684c3-ff45-93b4-9cce-153e959eff82@citrix.com>

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, speck for Andrew Cooper wrote:

> Anyway, customers and management have expressed concerns about the ease
> of rolling back microcode versions in the field, to stabilise impacted
> systems.

As most (all?) distros are shipping intel-ucode as a standard package that 
can be easily downgraded, is there really any value in trying to solve 
this outside of standard distro package management system?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-03  1:46 [MODERATED] ucode packaging Andrew Cooper
2019-10-03  9:06 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-03 10:25 ` Greg KH
2019-10-03 11:50 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]

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