I am wondering because of the (fairly) recent Spectre and Meltdown bugs that can only be fixed on the CPU if you either are running Linux or update your BIOS. However, most people do not want to run only Linux and many computers have not had a BIOS update released in a long time and will likely never get patched. So, would it be possible to mod a BIOS to load the updated microcode at boot time? And how much work would that take?
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