Am 2004-05-16 09:03:00, schrieb Fabian Fagerholm: >On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 23:18, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: >> And what if next processors will require downloading firmware to work? > >(If this was intended as irony, I didn't get it :) > >Actually it's not even far-fetched. Think dynamic instruction sets, >cheaper production costs, smaller costs for distributing a "new CPU" in >software or smaller costs for fixing CPU bugs. Or think "LISP machine" >if you will... In the last weeks I had read somthing abour microde which already exist since more then 10 years... I think, the first implementation was by Compaq... >In any case, this issue will not go away. One can only hope that Debian >has managed to deal with it before you can't even boot without having >the boot loader upload firmware to your CPU. I agree ! >Cheers, >-- >Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net> Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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