Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:10:29 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > > (reasonably) latest BIOS and it even tells on boot that it patched both > > > CPUs to revision=7 microcode. Yet with my thing I patched it to > > > revision=14. > > > > As I said... old or substandard. Sounds like the latter case. The BIOS > > manufacturer has been sloppy. > > Not really. The BIOS folks have provision and tools so you can add more > microcode updates to your flash. It even has a flash segment specififed for > it and an int 15 API extension >
... assuming this BIOS supports it (in which case this is, again, the preferred method.)
-hpa
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