> And if you ask Intel employees about it, they just ignore you. In 99,9% of cases, asking INTEL employees about anything is just pure waste of the time and effort!
IMHO! Zoran On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On 21.11.2017 09:31, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > > Since there are many releases of Intel's cpu microcode since 2015-01, I > > was wondering if > > there's a reason why coreboot, if at all, uses this one. > > the explanation might be a simple one, e.g. the last person who tried to > update it, didn't know the new package exists at all. I bet that's true > for 99% of the coreboot community. > > Last time I checked for microcode updates (for Skylake) I had to click > through a license at intel.com and promise not to redistribute it! And > if you ask Intel employees about it, they just ignore you. So I'm overly > pleased to see your link ;) thank you very much! Please tell us, for > future reference, how you found it. > > Now if you also tell us that it comes with a license that allows redris- > tribution, that would be like an early Christmas xD That we don't have > the (mandatory!) updates for current Intel processors in our blobs repo- > sitory is one of the big bummers that make the upstream coreboot ex- > perience suck. > > > > > I know very little about it really. It may well be potentially bad to > > simply use the latest version, > > No, it's considered to be the best thing to use the latest updates. > > > but in case it's really only because nobody did it, I might prepare a > > patch to use > > downloadmirror.intel.com/27337/eng/microcode-20171117.tgz instead > > (someday, after > > I testing it on my device). > > Please do so. Though, the `update-microcodes.sh` doesn't fit the binary > format in the new package any more. I guess it can be replaced with a > simpler script, e.g. > > for f in ??-??-??; do > model=$(echo $f | sed -e's/\(0.\)-\(.\)\(.\)-0./0x\2\1\3/') > dir=$(printf "model_%xx\n" $model) > mkdir -p $dir > cat $f >>$dir/microcode.bin > done > > Best, > Nico > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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