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Date:      Sat, 01 Jul 2000 20:53:56 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box 
Message-ID:  <876.962477636@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:44:54 %2B0900." <20000702024454G.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> 

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In message <20000702024454G.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, KATO Takenori writ
es:
>Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
>> Look at the first paragraph:  This is for Pentium Pro cpus running
>> in motherboards where the BIOS does not contain the needed microcode
>> updates.
>
>I have one question.  Does microcode update modify a CPU permanently?

No, it needs to be loaded at every reboot.

>I used a CPU on the M/B with correct microcode update and then moved
>the CPU to the M/B which has signal 11 problem.  Signal 11 didn't
>disappear.

This must have other reasons.

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