On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 07:57:19PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[email protected]> 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
Convenience... at what cost? What _other_ microcode are you shipping today? And here i thought that fully free memory controller setup is what made coreboot shine. Luc Verhaegen. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
