Comment 13 for bug 1084373

HI Tim,

Can you please elaborate the policy concern?

Is it a license issue? As linux-firmware also contains binary files which is in main repository and loaded by default. From the perspective of "binary", I don't know the difference of cpu microcode vs. device firmwares.

As the Intel cpu microcode is used to correct errata in the processor which is important for users who uses the affected platforms. Even the intel-microcode can't be moved to the main repository, is there a way to automatically notify Ubuntu users that there's a cpu microcode update? And users can make their decision to install the package or not.

Thanks for your information and advice!