Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22!

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 10:55:25 EST


On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 16:57, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> I could implement this, but if you tell me that this is not allowed
> because of the GPL issues (microcode data chunks are copyrighted by Intel)
> then obviously I won't waste time writing the code to do this.

Thats something we are moving away from, so that we can load firmware
from the initrd. Another interesting place to tackle it might be in lilo
or grub ?

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