[coreboot] [PATCH] model_65x CPU support

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Sun Oct 17 09:28:14 CEST 2010


Am 17.10.2010 04:34, schrieb Corey Osgood:
> Microcode updates are, from my understanding, typically not extremely
> important. IMO, including them in coreboot should be a Kconfig option,
> because it's probably faster to let just linux load them (but other
> OS's may not have that ability).
We're just lucky that none of the CPUs requires a microcode update for
proper CAR operation yet (for example).
That would be something that microcode updates in linux couldn't manage.

Generally these updates should happen as early as possible.


Patrick




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