Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [from bugtraq] SCO provides Microcode fixes on Intel platforms | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:50:50 +0000 | | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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kris@koehntopp.de said: > The following message is an SCO PTF document posted to bugtraq. It is > about SCO Unix fixing PPro and Pentium II microcode when the kernel > comes up.
> It does not say anything about Pentium or Pentium MMX microcode fixes.
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According to http://www.sandpile.org/80x86/mcupdate.shtml , the Pentium doesn't have the microcode update facility:
> It has been asked, whether the well-known Pentium FDIV bug could have been > fixed that way. Well, even if the Pentium would have had some microcode > update feature (which it did not), ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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