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On 01/09/2017 11:58 AM, Daniel Kulesz wrote:
Hi,
thank you for the hints. Actually, I am a bit puzzled why some of you misinterpreted my message as a claim or even a "proof". Since I haven't seen (m)any reports about running Coreboot with a Core2Quad Mobile w/o microcode updates (The Libreboot docs even state that these CPUs are incompatible), I only wanted to report that for me it seems not to crash badly on booting or compiling. No more than that.
Cheers, Daniel
No problem, and thanks for the data point. I just wanted to chime in so that others are aware that on certain CPUs there are hidden risks to not using update microcode; when making the decision to avoid microcode the errata documentation for the specific processor in use needs to be carefully analyzed for the intended use case to avoid an even less secure setup than just using fully proprietary firmware.
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