>> The key is that freebsd may need to change a few things to make it
>> bootable from cold hardware. I don't think this is for sure, but it may
>> happen. I hope the team is receptive to such changes ...
>
>ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better
>clean up after it"?
How is the microcode loading handled in LinuxBIOS ? As far as I know
getting hold of the microcode-supplemental data from Intel is a process
which is (impossible - epsilon) and certainly not open source compatible ?
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