12th Gen Intel Core BIOS 3.06 Beta

@meehien While your Lenovo example is an exception. I do want to point out that companies that do supply these regular BIOS updates are hundreds of times bigger than Framework and have MASSIVE contracts to supply machines to Fortune 100 companies, the government, etc., of course the BIOSes are going to be updated every few months. Framework is a minuscule fraction in size compared to these companies. Things are going to go slower, not to mention we aren’t even more than a few years into Framework selling machines to the public. Theres going to be bugs and hold ups. You are comparing apples and oranges.

I have a z170 ASUS motherboard in my PC, ASUS’s last BIOS release for that board was 2017. The vast majority of manufacturers hardly ever upgrade their BIOS after a few years. This was moreso my original point.

@JP_Powers The 12th gen’s shipped with 3.05 which was a patched BIOS to address those CVEs. Did you not get 3.05 on your 12th gen? Personally I would love to see Coreboot as well.

Really my entire above comment was just echoing your aversion to beta software. I cant help but facepalm when someone complains that 3.06 is taking too long, then gets impatient and installs a beta BIOS on their machine and then SHOCKED PIKACHU when their laptop is now broken in some way and takes to the forum to complain about their now messed up laptop.

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