[LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

[Corey Osgood]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
>   
>>> How many different cores could you put in even the most popular
>>> socket, three?
>>>       
>> LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about).
>> Using some rough math, I get a rounded-down size of 186KB (really
>> is quite a bit more) for its updates, and that would go into both
>> normal and fallback images.
>>     
>
> I think we need to make it configurable.
>
>
> //Peter
>   

I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct microcode
update for your CPU to be present, no matter what CPU you put in a
socket. We should be able to do the same.

-Corey