On 09.01.2017 23:07, [email protected] wrote: > 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?)
Well, I remember when a x86 CPU alone cost $1k. You should stop buying x86 if it's too cheap for your taste. > * 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. They can have that much more easier by flipping a secret bit somewhere. > * 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. > Might be, but that's not how it started / why we have microcode updates. These are all good reasons not to buy a CPU that requires black-box updates. But not against applying the update if you have such a CPU. Nico -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
