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@gduperrey Skylake-S Xeon here w/o patched bios, works fine so far.

edit: double checked /proc/cpuinfo, seems the ucode update is applying correctly, so, yeah, it worked.

just joining the crowd of "seems fine"

root@lenovo150
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OS: XCP-ng release 8.2.1 (xenenterprise) x86_64
Host: ThinkServer TS150 70LUS00C00
Kernel: 4.19.0+1
Uptime: 7 mins
Packages: 551 (rpm)
Shell: bash 4.2.46
Terminal: /dev/pts/13
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v5 (8) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics P530
Memory: 560MiB / 2498MiB

note: only on 8.2.1 because I don't feel like even potentially breaking anything right now out of sheer laziness but its been rock solid so far

[19:51 lenovo150 xtf]# ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

and

[19:52 lenovo150 xtf]# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP

and of course

[20:00 lenovo150 ~]# /usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy
CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:

@MichaelCropper I don't think that's entirely fair-there are plenty of homelabbers that purely do it as a personal side project, even if few of them end up on xcp-ng.

I mean, I'm certainly one of them.

Bumping my lab to staging right now-if you don't hear back, assume everything works fine.