Release 6.0.0 CPU Microcode Testing

Copyright 2016 by Assured Information Security, Inc. Created by Ross Philipson <philipsonr@ainfosec.com>. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

This page is to capture manual test results in the 6.0 release for determining what systems have issues with the new CPU microcode that was introduced. Ticket:

OXT-706 - Getting issue details... STATUS

GEN - Intel CPU architecture generation: SNB (Sandy Bridge), IVB (Ivy Bridge), HSW (Haswell), BDW (Broadwell), SKL (Sky Lake)

FF - form factor: L (laptop), D (desktop), W (workstation)

FW - firmware or BIOS version number

VER - OpenXT version

 

VendorModelGENFFFWVERSymptoms
HP800 G1HSWD RC2The dbus daemon crashes at boot time. udev dies if you plug a USB device in. Works fine without any microcode and worked fine when tested with stable 5.
HP800 G1 SFFHSWD RC2

The dbus daemon crashes at boot time. udev dies if you plug a USB device in. Works fine without any microcode. Note this was using Xen 4.6 too.

HPEliteBook 850 G1HSWL RC2System boots fine, no further tests. (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat
HPFolio 9470mIVBL RC2System boots fine, S3 "works" (Windows 7 VM crashes, like on all other systems) (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat
HPEliteBook 850 G3SKLL RC2System boots fine, black screen coming out of S3 (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat
HP800 G2SKLD RC2System boots fine, S3 works after reboot but crashes the system after cold boot, like on many other HP desktops (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat
HPZ230 XeonHSWD RC2

System boots fine. Never resumes from sleep. Reboot after "failed resume from sleep" OK without microcode. Reboot after "failed resume from sleep" ML failed with microcode and then succeeded after reboot.

DellE7450BDWL RC2System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine.
DellE6430 ATGIVBL RC2System boots fine. resume from S3 w/ ML works fine. reseal works fine.
DellE7440HSWLA18RC2System boots fine. Doesn't resume from S3. ML failed after S3 with and without microcode.dat
HP

EliteBook 2170p

IVBL RC2System boots fine. resume from S3 w/ ML works fine
DELLE7470SKLL RC2System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine.
DELLOptiplex 9010IVBD RC2System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine.