[coreboot] Microcode question ?

Timothy Pearson tpearson at raptorengineering.com
Wed Oct 19 18:49:13 CEST 2016


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On 10/19/2016 11:34 AM, Vasilief wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 10:31 AM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>> * Riko Ho <antonius.riko at gmail.com> [161017 02:18]:
>>> Is it ok if I'm not including microcode updates ?
>>
>> It might, or might not. On the i945/946 it probably is ok. A lot of
>> modern CPUs can't boot successfully anymore without loading microcode.
> 
> Most modern ARM, MIPS, and AVR CPUs can.
> 

ARM does not have the concept of microcode, except for possibly a couple
of derivatives (Tegra, ?)

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