Re: How free is Debian
On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 23:11 -0500, 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 <hmh@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.
>
Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what
kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit?
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