Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Allow components to add files to CBFS

[Myles Watson]

> ]That there aren't any binary components in the tree is simply for the
> fact
> ]that they're not redistributable: We usually scrap them from vendor
> BIOSes,
> ]and they're not separately available.
>
> Thanks for explaining. I always wondered why uma video option roms were
> not included with coreboot. Microcode patches should be put into this
> same category. The supplied AMD patches are not the latest, if I am not
> mistaken. It wouldn't be hard to automate the process of extracting AMD
> patches from a BIOS binary.

Getting AMD to supply the latest is the preferable method for me.  There are
several cases where there is no "vendor BIOS" for the board.  There would be
more if we could figure out some of these problems.

Thanks,
Myles