AMD microcode updates.

[Colin Ian King]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 06:55 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 03:14 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
> >
> >
> 
> The legalese in the download page is beyond me.

Me too. Perhaps I should punt this to some legal experts.
> 
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> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
>