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Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>but what what's the >>penalty of preventing microcode from loading? a performance >>hit? > > > not even that; in theory a few cpu bugs may have been fixed. Nobody > really knows since there's no changelog for the microcode.. You can see the processor bugs in intel website, i.e.: ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon/specupdt/24967847.pdf The following sentence (IMHO) meens that bug is corrected in microcode: "Workaround: It is possible for the BIOS to contain a workaround for this erratum." ciao cate - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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