Re:I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro
by mindslight on Saturday November 20, 2021 @05:54PM
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> reading the full excerpt seems to put the reason for rejecting 6300 onto Errata 734
Well there are two reasons. The first is Errata 734, and the second is that the fix for Errata 734 requires loading different microcode than what was baked into the processor at manufacturing time ("6300 series CPUs have buggy microcode built-in, and libreboot recommends avoiding the updates"). I didn't mention Errata 734, because I'm focused on the second reason.
Working back from their reasoning, Errata 734 seemingly does not apply to the 6200 series.
Well there are two reasons. The first is Errata 734, and the second is that the fix for Errata 734 requires loading different microcode than what was baked into the processor at manufacturing time ("6300 series CPUs have buggy microcode built-in, and libreboot recommends avoiding the updates"). I didn't mention Errata 734, because I'm focused on the second reason.
Working back from their reasoning, Errata 734 seemingly does not apply to the 6200 series.