gourdcaptain ([personal profile] gourdcaptain) wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2016-04-14 03:13 am (UTC)

Re: Actually been fixed.

0x74 microcode, released 3/15/16, and SGX disabled. Unfortunately, I can't flash newer UEFI if they put one out (still the most recent for it as of this posting) because the updater is Windows only (although I did flash the most recent one before wiping the drive, and have a Clonezilla backup of the Windows install if I absolutely have to). At least hopefully there'll eventually be microcode files I can early boot load.

EDIT: At least this is less bad than when I got a Broadwell i7 5700hq laptop last year and the microcode-based TSX issues were so bad I could only boot Fedora 22 for a month stably (it would crash under any load) until MSI (the ones I bought it from) were the first out with a fixed microcode update. (And their updater actually works from the UEFI loading off a USB stick). Intel's just awful anymore, but not like we really have any alternatives, given how bad AMD CPUs are for a lot of things anymore.

EDIT: Seriously, TSX was properly disabled under Haswell for a year at that point! Why was Broadwell shipping with it enabled and faulty? Did they not even check?

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org