25 Jul
2013
25 Jul
'13
10:23 p.m.
On 07/22/2013 01:25 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:14:22 -0700 ron minnich rminnich@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