[coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 04:57:19 CEST 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> I hope this is not going into the main repository, but into some
> separate repository instead.
> Right now we can tell people that all code in our official git
> repository is GPL-compatible, and I'd like to keep it that way.

We maintain GPL V2 compatibility as this is a blob that is placed into
cbfs. There is no linking.

I don't see it as different from what we do today with microcode,
which has been in the coreboot tree for many years now. While that
code is in "source" form in some sense, it really is a binary blob. We
would not have wanted to force people to maintain all that as as
separate repo.

Hope that helps. I'd like to make sandybridge support as convenient as possible.

thanks

ron




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