Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:43:10 +0100 | From | "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <> | Subject | Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! |
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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."
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