On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:48:44PM +0200, Elias Diem wrote: > Hi > > On 2015-06-06, Артур Истомин wrote: > > > Your rant is cogent. But if so, why OpenBSD does not supply > > microcode updates from Intel/AMD? There are tons of security fixes. > > I just wonder: Is there really such microcode available that > is open source?
It is blob that runs on processor, not host machine [0]. Not opensourced, but Teo's rant exactly about such blobs. This is double standard. Some blobs are valid for Teo, others (which fix tons processor's bugs, including security bugs) - no. [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode
