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. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ron minnich [mailto:[email protected]] 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
