Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270214AbTHGQJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:09:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265591AbTHGQJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:09:39 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:41092 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270350AbTHGP7L (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:59:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22! From: Alan Cox To: Tigran Aivazian Cc: Chris Rankin , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1060271725.3168.79.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 Aug 2003 16:55:25 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 663 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 16:57, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I could implement this, but if you tell me that this is not allowed > because of the GPL issues (microcode data chunks are copyrighted by Intel) > then obviously I won't waste time writing the code to do this. Thats something we are moving away from, so that we can load firmware from the initrd. Another interesting place to tackle it might be in lilo or grub ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/