[HN Gopher] OpenBSD: AMD processor microcode support added to -c...
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       OpenBSD: AMD processor microcode support added to -current
        
       Author : peter_hansteen
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2023-07-23 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | snvzz wrote:
       | An example of something that wouldn't be needed at all with an
       | open boot process, as earlier firmware would take care of it.
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       | But we have to work with the poor state some motherboard vendor's
       | UEFI BIOS leaves the computer in, as control is passed to
       | Openbsd's bootloader.
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       | We should prevent ever getting to this situation on RISC-V. So
       | far, implementations have done well in this regard, with TH1520
       | and JH7110 following u-boot spl to opensbi to u-boot flow, with
       | UEFI on the works on the latter chip.
        
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