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

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Scott Duplichan  [101215 22:33]:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Patrick Georgi
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 03:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Allow components to add files to CBFS
>
> ]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.

Actually we can redistribute Intel and VIA option ROMs. I asked ATI and
then AMD a lot of times, but I never got a definite written answer on
whether they're no-lawyer-involved happy with us putting up copies of
their oproms. If they were, I'd gladly add their images to our oprom
repository on coreboot.org.

Scott, can you (or Marc?) get anyone at AMD to make a binding statement?
It would help the coreboot user experience a lot.

Also, where do we officially get amd microcode files? I don't think
extracting them from some UEFI image is the way to go. Again, for Intel
it's fairly easy. Can we get AMD to catch up here?

Stefan