-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2017 11:36 AM, ron minnich wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:23 AM [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 01/08/2017 06:50 PM, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > > > 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. - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYc8sOAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFb/YwH/AqhMYlwtUsEAOVAg1dRmGss wld98lITvh9gRv2vDPUxNrA8S2rhV8gE6OyQLn8EskyTRMNl8Wts9HR9gVBgPDO2 +mk6CQTVbWy7CBT4MZmGsJfx61KT+5valJCvH63RVciLPIY4v97w2KVPn1FE7IqN AlCPBZDuxvVvBbRFKepygb9v75Nse6yGt1f7DHdwasAOnKGxEr+kSqMDjCNIM7D7 p4Sh5u8WzBT/3+fYm4jViskZrPhKdlo6LLQcggrlurPeAItvccm3acULGkE2FeRD +R/Y984vIaS+qlGfkh+Es8Xo4xbeXDJQzIruifN4unOD295txwsFdJ/muSXYpsk= =eXl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
