AMD microcode updates.

[Pete Graner]

On 12/01/2010 02:52 PM, Pete Graner wrote:
> 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
>

After taking to legal, this is ok to ship provided we distribute 
everything in the tarball as part of the package.

Only questions I have are:

1. Is this going to be a separate package, or part of the existing 
microcode package?

2. if #1 is separate then who is doing the MIR?

~pete

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