On 12/15/2010 05:23 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
* Scott Duplichan<[email protected]> [101215 22:33]:
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Patrick Georgi
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 03:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Allow components to add files to CBFS
]That there aren't any binary components in the tree is simply for the fact
]that they're not redistributable: We usually scrap them from vendor BIOSes,
]and they're not separately available.
Thanks for explaining. I always wondered why uma video option roms were
not included with coreboot. Microcode patches should be put into this
same category. The supplied AMD patches are not the latest, if I am not
mistaken. It wouldn't be hard to automate the process of extracting AMD
patches from a BIOS binary.
Actually we can redistribute Intel and VIA option ROMs. I asked ATI and
then AMD a lot of times, but I never got a definite written answer on
whether they're no-lawyer-involved happy with us putting up copies of
their oproms. If they were, I'd gladly add their images to our oprom
repository on coreboot.org.
Scott, can you (or Marc?) get anyone at AMD to make a binding statement?
It would help the coreboot user experience a lot.
Also, where do we officially get amd microcode files? I don't think
extracting them from some UEFI image is the way to go. Again, for Intel
it's fairly easy. Can we get AMD to catch up here?
Yes most of the Intel oproms (vga bios blobs) are publicly downloadable
from the Intel website (just look for the developer drivers). I think we
should have a section in the tree for the blobs. I think the only
discrepancy Intel has is they do not want hacked/cracked copy's of their
blobs re-distributable...
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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