From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 23:21:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5416A400 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noerd@daemonical.org) Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBC913C458 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noerd@daemonical.org) Received: from fwd34.aul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1I43Ih-0001To-00; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:21:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (V8D-LyZV8eAtR71DkLvZuBKAzCc+O+JlCHKzX67m3eikIro3PldfZ9@[84.165.71.65]) by fwd34.t-online.de with esmtp id 1I43IY-2GZZ7Q0; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:21:14 +0200 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:21:13 +0200 From: Oliver Herold To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070628232113.GA50412@asgard.home> References: <200706281742.24078.antik@bsd.ee> <499c70c0706281441g29cd40bj9525c5d30731d074@mail.gmail.com> <20070628221955.GA49543@asgard.home> <20070628224320.GA72460@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070628224320.GA72460@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-ID: V8D-LyZV8eAtR71DkLvZuBKAzCc+O+JlCHKzX67m3eikIro3PldfZ9@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 1c6312e8-11ac-445b-939e-0385f688d496 Subject: Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:21:24 -0000 Are people aware that is it possible to update the microcode of a cpu with an updated bios? I don't think so. On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Biology grows on you.