On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 06:28:16PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > request_firmware() is used for microcode loading, too, so it's fairly > a core part to cover, I'm afraid. > > I played a bit about this yesterday. The patch below is a proof of > concept to (ab)use the module signing mechanism for firmware loading > too. Sign firmware files via scripts/sign-file, and put to > /lib/firmware/signed directory.
That does still leave me a little uneasy as far as the microcode licenses go. I don't know that we can distribute signed copies of some of them, and we obviously can't sign at the user end. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
