Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

[Gregg Levine]

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.
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Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, ron minnich  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  wrote:
> > ron minnich [mailto:[e-mail]]  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