Right... the microcode is part of the HW design; some vendors build the microcode images into the chip, while others have the BIOS or driver load them at start-up.
The industry is generally moving to driver-loaded microcode, but I don't believe any vendor is planning to start opening up their hardware designs. Thanks, John >-----Original Message----- >From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf >Of Huang Rui >Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:15 PM >To: Frederique >Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: Re: AMD and free and open source software > >We don't have the plan to open up firmware source. > >Thanks, >Rui > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 04:16:59AM +0800, Frederique wrote: >> Dear Huang Rui, >> >> I recently swapped my NVIDIA Geforce 980 Ti for an AMD R9 Fury because >> of the devoted efforts that are being made towards a free and open >> source software driver. >> >> I will be sticking with AMD for as long as this effort continues and >> extends. >> >> I have one question however. I use Debian, and right now I am only one >> non-free package away from being free, this is the AMD Graphics >> Firmware package. Will AMD make an effort to open up the firmware bits >> too? If not, is there any particular reason why this is being held back? >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> Sincerely yours, >> Frederique >_______________________________________________ >amd-gfx mailing list >amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx _______________________________________________ amd-gfx mailing list amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx
