On 07/22/2013 01:25 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:14:22 -0700 > ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't see how excluding the new, fixed version from coreboot helps >> anything. Further, it means you don't have bug-fixed microcode, which >> seems bad. > It is at least a licensing problem: > That microcode has a proprietary license in its header, > with some terms that are incompatible with the GPLv2... > And coreboot is released under the GPLv2. > Denis,
We have in place a pretty darn good infrastructure of separating the microcode from the coreboot stages. It's very easy to store microcode as a _separate_ CBFS file. Not all CPUs use this, but changing this is trivial. Patches welcome. Alex -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
