Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 2007-06-28 11:55-0400, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> 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.

These patches in most cases would be work-arounds for
stability/replacement functionality. They can be bypassed. This is a
real patch, band-aid like. Or am I wrong?




> -JP
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