On 13/09/2013, Jonathan Perry-Houts <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My understanding of the microcode binary blobs is that they provide > updates to your processor / BIOS that usually have no free > alternative. So basically, your BIOS is probably already non-free and > you might as well have the latest version... so yes, installing the > firmware-linux-nonfree package is probably wise. > > This page has a little more information on what microcode is and why > these binary blobs are unfortunately often necessary: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode > > Someone with more specific knowledge should feel free to chime in here > as I am not an expert on this subject.
I am also not an expert (not by a long shot!) but believe this page may be of interest to people reading this discussion thread: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html Regards, Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAD-JurLk=ivauo-9pn6afvdx3crtal0nlusprlw5m7uau4z...@mail.gmail.com
