On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:10:02PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > > Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherin...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am also interested -- more from a philisophical perspective -- how > >> GuixSD and GNU squares with these kinds of security updates. > > > > In my opinion, CPU microcode falls under "non-functional data", as > > expressly permitted by the GNU FSDG. > > I strongly disagree. CPU microcode is absolutely functional data. > It determines how the CPU functions.
Personally I would really like to have microcode deployment integrated into GuixSD. But I agree with Mark here, and I don't see how it can be reconciled with the FSDG.
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