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Re:I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro by marcan_42 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:14PM (#29290418)
You can't add much to a CPU via microcode. The space of what updates can do is extremely limited, with a limited amount of patch RAM and patch registers. It's designed to fix bugs. You're arguing against fixing bugs in proprietary software you're already running.
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Re:I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro by marcodiego on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:21PM (#29290487)
So why don't CPU vendor open source their microcode? Secrets... ok, let's use the ones which have no secrets.
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Re:I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro by marcan_42 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:42PM (#29290681)
Good luck with that...
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