Kernel-firmware package and Anaconda.

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri May 8 08:23:41 UTC 2009


On 08.05.2009 07:53, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>[...]
> Your best bet to avoid non-Free Software from Fedora is probably to
> resort to Freed-ora Linux-libre builds, available from
> http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/, and to exclude *-firmware and
> microcode_ctl from the Fedora repositories.

I'd say excluding "microcode_ctl" IMHO is a very bad suggestion. Yes, 
the code that is uploaded to the CPU is neither free or open source 
software. But that holds true for the microcode-code the BIOS uploads to 
the CPU during bootup as well. That code in fact might be just a older 
version of the microcode that fixes less bugs, which might lead to more 
problems for your system or (in the worst case) miss-calculation that 
could cost you money.

CU
knurd




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