• ryannathans
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    2 days ago

    If that’s the case, why wouldn’t they put the microcode in the kernel?

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      2 days ago

      @ryannathans Why bloat the kernel with the microcode for every intel processor that might need it (and there is a similar thing for AMD) when you don’t have that specific processor? It does make more sense for it to be a separate, especially on memory constrained systems. I mean if you’ve got 256GB of RAM probably not a big deal but if you’ve got 256MB a big deal.

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        1 day ago

        The kernel compilation is already configurable between megabytes and gigabyte+

        Distros pick their featureset