On 26/08/12 10:04, Ben Finney wrote:
The border that is contentious is where we find devices designed to have their behaviour modified, but in a rather limited way and through tightly restricted channels – such as upgrading the firmware at boot time or run time from a binary blob.
Do Intel CPUs count as that with the microcode driver in the kernel
which lets a user space app update their firmware?
samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ grep microcode /var/log/syslog
Aug 27 09:52:13 eris kernel: [ 15.351781] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x80, revision=0xa07
Aug 27 09:52:13 eris kernel: [ 15.356422] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x80, revision=0xa07
Aug 27 09:52:13 eris kernel: [ 15.358127] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00