15 Jul
2013
15 Jul
'13
3:14 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli GNUtoo@no-log.org wrote:
What is unclear and must be tested is if the computer would boot or have some issues without the microcode. It really has to be tested... It might also work only on a subset of the X60/T60.
But the microcode is there, one way or another, right? It's in the CPU. This is a microcode update. It fixes bugs. And, on newer systems, they sometimes don't boot without the update.
I don't see how excluding the new, fixed version from coreboot helps anything. Further, it means you don't have bug-fixed microcode, which seems bad.
I wonder if the NIC has its own DMA engine.
They pretty much all do.
ron