On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 17:33:52 (-0700), Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users,
> who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible,
> here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious question.
>
> Are all binaries in the kernel code were writing from scratch? Are
> there any binary blobs in the kernel that it was given to developers?
> If amd64 license is not free, how is it that we have amd64 microcode in
> the debian free?
It isn't free; look:
Package: amd64-microcode
Version: 3.20160316.3
Installed-Size: 68
Maintainer: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Recommends: initramfs-tools (>= 0.113~) | dracut (>= 044) | tiny-initramfs
Breaks: intel-microcode (<< 2)
Description: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
Description-md5: 093f190e183c7cfeca05b52ecd2116e3
Section: non-free/admin
↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20160316.3_amd64.deb
↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
Size: 31116
MD5sum: 7056e449d8bac87d85a4e434379d0e6e
SHA256: f7bddaf712ffaa833ff65ef94bdd86720d55c2c56ae982c3db58181bbe70f147
> and if they are not the same, are we using the full
> potential of our hardware?
Cheers,
David.
