Release 6.0.0 CPU Microcode Testing
- Ross Philipson
- MagOXT
- Jed
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
| Vendor | Model | GEN | FF | FW | VER | Symptoms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 800 G1 | HSW | D | RC2 | The 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. | |
| HP | 800 G1 SFF | HSW | D | 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. | |
| HP | EliteBook 850 G1 | HSW | L | RC2 | System boots fine, no further tests. (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat | |
| HP | Folio 9470m | IVB | L | RC2 | System boots fine, S3 "works" (Windows 7 VM crashes, like on all other systems) (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat | |
| HP | EliteBook 850 G3 | SKL | L | RC2 | System boots fine, black screen coming out of S3 (TXT on, no ML configured) no change without microcode.dat | |
| HP | 800 G2 | SKL | D | RC2 | System 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 | |
| HP | Z230 Xeon | HSW | D | 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. | |
| Dell | E7450 | BDW | L | RC2 | System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine. | |
| Dell | E6430 ATG | IVB | L | RC2 | System boots fine. resume from S3 w/ ML works fine. reseal works fine. | |
| Dell | E7440 | HSW | L | A18 | RC2 | System boots fine. Doesn't resume from S3. ML failed after S3 with and without microcode.dat |
| HP | EliteBook 2170p | IVB | L | RC2 | System boots fine. resume from S3 w/ ML works fine | |
| DELL | E7470 | SKL | L | RC2 | System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine. | |
| DELL | Optiplex 9010 | IVB | D | RC2 | System boots fine, resume from S3 w/ ML works fine. |