Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 6/28/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> de Raadt makes reference to BIOS vendors providing fixes but there's a fix
> from Microsoft in a KB article at
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936357. They call it a
> "microcode reliability update".
>
> Does this mean that microcode in these CPUs is actually field-upgradable?


Yes. Intel has released patches before for their CPU's. I remember
applying some patches for the Pentium III some years back.

-JP
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