On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:10:02PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> > Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I am also interested -- more from a philisophical perspective -- how
> >> GuixSD and GNU squares with these kinds of security updates.
> >
> > In my opinion, CPU microcode falls under "non-functional data", as
> > expressly permitted by the GNU FSDG.
> 
> I strongly disagree.  CPU microcode is absolutely functional data.
> It determines how the CPU functions.

Personally I would really like to have microcode deployment integrated
into GuixSD. But I agree with Mark here, and I don't see how it can be
reconciled with the FSDG.