[coreboot] Does the Core2Quad Mobile Q9100 require microcode updates?
Taiidan at gmx.com
Taiidan at gmx.com
Mon Jan 9 23:07:47 CET 2017
Reasons to hate microcode updates:
* They enable companies to ship broken CPU's and fix them later thus a
CPU undergoes less testing (remember when software/games didn't have and
worked fine without a day one patch?)
* Theoretically a nation state actor could screw around with a CPU and
have an internal microcode update to secure their own systems, or
something else like that.
* It is a black box (at least with intel) that is just another step of
the war on general purpose computing- the tivoization of hardware.
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