On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:43 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >>but what what's the > >>penalty of preventing microcode from loading? a performance > >>hit? > > > > > > not even that; in theory a few cpu bugs may have been fixed. Nobody > > really knows since there's no changelog for the microcode.. > > You can see the processor bugs in intel website, i.e.: > ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon/specupdt/24967847.pdf > > The following sentence (IMHO) meens that bug is corrected in microcode: > "Workaround: It is possible for the BIOS to contain a workaround > for this erratum."
yeah but it doesn't say in which microcode. Eg it's not possible to find out what a specific microcode update changes over the one the bios already put in... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
