[coreboot] Supported laptops (again), treacherous computing

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Tue Jul 30 02:40:16 CEST 2013


* Alex G. <mr.nuke.me at gmail.com> [130725 22:23]:
> 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.
 

I agree with Alex: If you are concerned by this issue, please make an
effort to fix it. It would be great to bring the clear level of
separation that we have on newer systems to older CPU types. In the
sense of licensing, CPU microcode is just data processed by coreboot.

Stefan




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