[coreboot] Does the Core2Quad Mobile Q9100 require microcode updates?

[Daniel Kulesz]

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 at raptorengineering.com> wrote:

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> On 01/09/2017 11:36 AM, ron minnich wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:23 AM Taiidan at gmx.com <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com>
> > <Taiidan at gmx.com <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com>> wrote:
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> >     On 01/08/2017 06:50 PM, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote:
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> >     > 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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