Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:58:55 -0500 | From | Rob Wilkens <> | Subject | Re: Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) |
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On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 11:45, Alan Cox wrote: > There are actually very few chips we don't have to deal with some kind > of errata on, and the newer more complex chips generally have the larger > collections of errata. > > One thing that has been helpful is the microcode update stuff Intel did, we > hit few bugs that up to date microcode kill off >
The hardware engineers, in my experience, will not refer to those issues as bugs, but rather as misdocumented features... No? I mean if an errata is enough to work around the problem, then the documentation was clearly the problem, and not the hardware implementation.
As per the microcode updates, I noticed RedHat 8 was autoupdating microcode on each boot IIRC. I've since switched to Debian and don't know that it does this. Should I be concerned?
-Rob
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