[OpenBIOS] Licensing of the code.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > Or did you mean the actual microcode update, as opposed to the code which 
> > > loads it into the CPU?
> > 
> > I mean the actual microcode update.
> 
> So what is at issue? The only problem I can forsee is getting Intel to
> give us the Microcode update, since they are not usually publically
> available. Intel has had a Microcode fix to the F00F bug for awhile, but
> is only releasing it to specific vendors, many of whom aren't even
> bothering to use it. Wouldn't you like to be able to take that F00F kludge
> out of Linux? 

Wrong. F00F workaround is not based on microcode update. And linux
already does it :-).

								Pavel

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