On 8/8/2019 6:11 AM, David Wright wrote: > 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 >
None-free is a repository that you enable if you need to, it is not the default in Debian if I am not mistaking. -- John Doe
