Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> A long time ago I noticed a curious feature on my Dell Latitude CPx
> H-450GT laptop - rebooting it via "shutdown -r now" (and therefore going
> through BIOS) does not discard the microcode applied to the CPU. But I
> would expect it to be discarded as prescribed by Intel manuals, on #RESET.
>
> Does it mean that rebooting a laptop does not actually ever reset the
> CPU? (this would imply that the BIOS is also a protected mode software?)
>
Most CPU's aren't... instead the system assert INIT.
-hpa
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