Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:21:13 +0200 From: Oliver Herold <noerd@daemonical.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell Message-ID: <20070628232113.GA50412@asgard.home> In-Reply-To: <20070628224320.GA72460@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200706281742.24078.antik@bsd.ee> <499c70c0706281441g29cd40bj9525c5d30731d074@mail.gmail.com> <20070628221955.GA49543@asgard.home> <20070628224320.GA72460@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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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.
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