#1069025 iucode-tool: ignore/skip unknown microcode formats (plain text files, markdown, ...)

Package:
iucode-tool
Source:
iucode-tool
Description:
Intel processor microcode tool
Submitter:
Johannes Krottmayer
Date:
2024-04-15 09:33:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1069025#5
Date:
2024-04-15 09:28:00 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

According the source code from iucode-tool, it skip empty files. But the program aborts
on plain text files and other types of files, which are none firmware files (unknown
micocode formats).

This behaviour might not exist, if an user use the default firmware from the distrubtion.
But exist if an user like me use the offical Intel microcode repository on GitHub, because
there are also none firmware files, like the README in markdown format and other text files.
In the current version from iucode-tool, these files must be deleted by hand.

Therefore I would be nice, if someday the iucode tool skip files, which are not micocode
files and don't abort with an error.

Kind regards,

Johannes K.