Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:35:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support |
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Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > This device should only be used if the BIOS is old/substandard. > > A realworld example for you. My GA 6BXD motherboard at home has the > (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.
> > > Major 10, minor 184. > > thanks. And I will call it /dev/microcode. A bit long for function > prefixes but there won't be many. >
Great!
-hpa
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