On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Stuart Bennett wrote: > On 19/08/16 13:49, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >No need to downgrade the BIOS, it is enough if you go from microcode > >0x36 to 0x38 by just installing intel-microcode and rebooting. It is > >not a complete test, but a *lot* less painful :-) > > That is certainly easy to do, but can you explain how it helps? Summarising > previous tests: > > Old BIOS, microcode 0x32: ok > Old BIOS, microcode 0x36: broken > New BIOS, microcode 0x36: ok > > It seems to me that testing `New BIOS, microcode 0x38' will not tell us > anything about 0x38 having fixed the 0x36 regression.
It means 0x36 can be safely upgraded to 0x38, and 0x36 is widely available and used, so it is valuable info. Of course, if you'd be willing to do the nasty bios-downgrade dance, that would be even more useful information... but I am not asking you to do that, bios downgrades are no joke. -- Henrique Holschuh
