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you had the source code. If you try to upload your own modified updates, the CPU will reject them. In other words,
the microcode updates are <em><a href="https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html">tivoized</a></em>.
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+ <p>
+ The microcode updates alter the way instructions behave on the CPU. That means they affect the way the CPU works, in
+ a very fundamental way. That makes it software. The updates are proprietary, and are software, so we exclude them from
+ libreboot. The microcode built into the CPU already is not so much of an issue, since we can't change it anyway (it's
+ read-only).
+ </p>
<h3 id="intelbastards">Intel is uncooperative <span class="r"><a href="#intelbastards">#intelbastards</a></span></h3>
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For years, coreboot has been struggling against Intel. Intel has been shown to be extremely uncooperative in general.