AMD microcode updates.

[Pete Graner]

On 11/30/2010 05:14 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think we should consider supporting AMD microcode updates for Natty.
> The kernel microcode driver is able to load the AMD microcode file
> automatically from /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin when the
> module is loaded using the firmware loading infrastructure, so we don't
> need to mess around with user space tools like the Intel microcode_ctl·
>
> The microcode is available at:
> http://www.amd64.org/support/microcode.html (tarball at:
> http://www.amd64.org/index.php?id=50&file=amd-ucode-latest.tar)
>
> The caveat is we need some careful inspection of the Software License
> Agreement.
>
> Colin
>
>

I'll vett this with Canonical legal. I will report back here with the 
status.

~pete

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