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
[1] https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t500_external.html#cpu_compatibility
On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:40:33 -0600 Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineering.com wrote:
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On 01/09/2017 11:36 AM, ron minnich wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:23 AM Taiidan@gmx.com mailto:Taiidan@gmx.com <Taiidan@gmx.com mailto:Taiidan@gmx.com> wrote:
On 01/08/2017 06:50 PM, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > Hi, > > for the record: I had the Q9000 (not Q9100) running in my Thinkpad T500 for a few weeks now without microcode updates and did not encounter any issues so far.absence of proof is not proof of absence.
I would personally be very wary of running Intel CPUs without microcode updates. Intel relies heavily on that "patch after ship" feature to iron out serious bugs (i.e. privilege escalation) in their hardware.
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