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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:43:20 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oliver Herold <noerd@daemonical.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell
Message-ID:  <20070628224320.GA72460@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070628221955.GA49543@asgard.home>
References:  <200706281742.24078.antik@bsd.ee> <499c70c0706281441g29cd40bj9525c5d30731d074@mail.gmail.com> <20070628221955.GA49543@asgard.home>

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:19:55AM +0200, Oliver Herold wrote:
> This is nice, but some people are experiencing this certain kind of problem.
> Maybe you have got the latest bios already :-)

Are people aware that there is no BIOS in a CPU, and that this is
referring to processor microcode?

Stepping numbers usually indicate different "versions" of a processor,
if people want to compare those.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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