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SubjectRe: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC]
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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