On 26.01.2017 12:41, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 25/01/2017, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you have a machine with microcode updates, you >> should load the updates. I have never understood the objections to >> microcode blobs. If you accept the microcode that's on the machine already, >> then objecting to the microcode blob is creating a distinction without a >> difference. > > That reasoning ignores the case where the user might consider the > manufacturer(s) to have been (relatively) trustworthy at the time the > machine and it's components were manufactured, but to have > subsequently become less trustworthy. > > In such a case, the user would be right to avoid the microcode updates. > > Hypothetical example: I buy a machine with built-in microcode from the > young Anakin Skywalker. A decade later, Darth Vader releases a > microcode update. Should I apply it?
Of course, you should! Don't you see how much more powerful your machine would become? :-D -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
