On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > (while I work for Intel this is not an official Intel statement, but > there is so much FUD going around now that I feel I need to at least > point out a few things others "forget") >> Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel >> microcode was being fixed. > > don't just always believe everything you read on slashdot please > >> However, it listed only Windows related sites >> for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really >> fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? > > First of all, Linux has microcode updates as well. Some of the more > hypish news-bulletins just conveniently "forgot" about this. Basically > all distributions ship them, so users who use the distro update tools > get these automatically. And the update mentioned has been shipping for > a while (in version 1.17). >
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