[coreboot] Supported laptops (again), treacherous computing
Alex G.
mr.nuke.me at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 22:23:50 CEST 2013
On 07/22/2013 01:25 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:14:22 -0700
> ron minnich <rminnich at 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
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