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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0
    On 10/12/2011 03:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > On 10/12/2011 03:27 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
    >>
    >> The current scheme has worked pretty well so far; there doesn't seem to
    >> be a huge concern about it. Have there been actual observed failures
    >> with the current mechanism, or is the drive to make it earlier driven by
    >> an aesthetic desire to make it "as it should be"?
    >>
    >
    > Yes, there has. There is at least one case where we have to print an
    > error message saying "update your BIOS" because our current microcode
    > update is too late.

    Is that K8 errata 93 or something else?

    J


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