Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:27:47 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: New format Intel microcode... |
| |
> Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel > microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites
That's a little misleading. Always dangerous getting your information from slashdot. Let's say Intel clarified some corner cases in TLB flushing that have changed with Core2 and not everybody got that right. I wouldn't say it was a Intel bug though.
> for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really
I think so.
> fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does?
On newer Linux 2.6 yes. On 2.4/x86-64 you would need in theory the microcode update too. (it'll probably show up at some point at the usual place http://urbanmyth.org/microcode/). Linux/i386 is always fine.
But the problem is very obscure and you can likely ignore it too. If your machine crashes it's very likely something else.
-Andi - 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/
| |