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SubjectRe: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support
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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