Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:00:44 -0600 (CST) | From | "Pat St. Jean" <> | Subject | Re: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC] |
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Lauri Tischler wrote: >Pat St. Jean wrote: >> >> How could it? IIRC, the "new" microcode is stored in the flash rom with >> the BIOS. One of the first things the machine does on startup is update >> the microcode. Linux isn't even in existance at that time. > >You are mixing BIOS program and processor-chip microcode. >BIOS-code is a program which is run at boot-up from BIOS-Prom or flashrom. >Microcode is processor internal code which defines the actual execution >of processor instructions.
No, I'm not. what I was saying is that I was under the impression that certain BIOS/mobo pairs were designed to store a newer microcode "blob" in the flash rom that was downloaded to the processor early on in the BIOS's startup routines.
Pat
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