Thanks for educating me as to the dumpster fire of patched together steps that take place in the first milliseconds of booting my PC.
With regard to this:
Intel CPUs ship with built-in microcode, but it's frequently old and buggy and it's up to the system firmware to include a copy that's new enough that it's actually expected to work reliably.
...I wish companies put more effort into releasing finished, polished products. Not just Intel. I played with an ESP32-S3 recently and learned not only was the entire digi controller for ADC2 'dropped' from support due to bad silicon, but using ADC1 with DMA was fraught with gotchas and blatently incorrect info in the documentation (reported at least a dozen to EspressIf and they acknowledged).
With regard to this:
Intel CPUs ship with built-in microcode, but it's frequently old and buggy and it's up to the system firmware to include a copy that's new enough that it's actually expected to work reliably.
...I wish companies put more effort into releasing finished, polished products. Not just Intel. I played with an ESP32-S3 recently and learned not only was the entire digi controller for ADC2 'dropped' from support due to bad silicon, but using ADC1 with DMA was fraught with gotchas and blatently incorrect info in the documentation (reported at least a dozen to EspressIf and they acknowledged).