Maintainance of hwdata

[Jon Masters]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:52:59AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>  > one thing that would be nice is if the cpu microcode data would actually
>  > move from microcode_ctl to hwdata; the program almost never gets updated
>  > but the microcode file gets updated every few months

Indeed. I've been doing some work on microcode_ctl lately, having taken 
it over recently - I'm ok with the idea of splitting the microcode 
itself out into another package, but that package is not hwdata.

> hwdata is noarch though. Including x86 microcode data on all arches would be
> a bit crap.

Yep. Though if people (and Intel?) think it's a good idea, I can split 
it out into another package for ease of updating...any word on whether 
greater microcode changelog data is forthcoming? :-)

Jon.