On 12/14/2011 06:40 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, batouzo <batouzo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > AMD develops and releases the ucode images. No source is available. > >> >> This means that entire firmeware of GFX card is flashed on bootup? >> Btw this is a form of virus protection you could say (or anyway such >> firmware is volatile and lost on reboot?) > > The ucode is volatile and is lost on reboot. The different ucode > images are used for different things. The PFP and ME ucode images > provide the acceleration API and the RLC ucode is required to make the > interrupt controller work. On newer asics, the MC ucode is used for > the gddr5 controller on the chip and is required to link train the > memory so it will run at full speed. Thanks for explanation. I hoped using radeon and KMS I'm choosing the "good" (secure / FOSS philosophy etc) solution, but it seems to not be the case then. What should one do to have 100% opensource, maximally secure X on radeon cards? Maybe I should disable firmware to achieve this goal at cost of performance - or may disabling firmware actually introduce any security/stability problems? Would Intel build-in card be better for this use? Any particular family? _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
