[coreboot] Supported laptops (again), treacherous computing

[Alex G.]

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