Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:48:18 +0100 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support |
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:01:47AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Also, more importantly, Intel manual says "the update must run in the > early stages of POST and always before L2 cache controllers are > initialized". I ignored it and it still worked fine.
I don't know much about intel microcode, but perhaps a microcode update _may_ change cache handling. So it might work with every microcode update available now (because Intel didn't make any incompatible changes), but may fail with the next one.
Jan
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