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getcrunkyesterday at 1:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Whenever these things come up I have to point out the most of these manufactures don’t do bios updates. Since spectre/meltdown we see cpu and bios vulnerabilities every few months-yearly.

I know u can patch microcode at runtime/boot but I don’t think that covers all vulnerabilities


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transputeyesterday at 1:25 AM

Hence the need for coreboot support.