Hello! Agreed on all points.
Now Scott, I'm certainly no expert on Intel processors either, but in a word, "Thank you!", regarding all of that searching and finding out where that stuff is based. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and that's sensible for some cases, if you consider that people don't always keep their firmware up to date!
To be honest, I'm trying a little bit to discourage the idea that it's safe to build coreboot without microcode blobs on modern CPUs. Might work on your x60. Not recommended on more recent chipsets. Yes, you might get it to boot. That's almost worse than having it fail.
ron
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Scott Duplichan scott@notabs.org wrote:
ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@gmail.com] wrote:
]you can no longer update microcode after the kernel boots ](on modern Intel CPUs). It has to happen before you do Cache ]As Ram in many cases, or you'll get some pretty unpleasant ]consequences. ] ]ron ] ][...]
While I am no expert on recent Intel processors, it appears Intel still distributes patch packages for OS use (goo.gl/ffLdyq) and Linux still applies them (goo.gl/oaBvdE).
Thanks, Scott
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