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