Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 03:34:24 EST


> This device should only be used if the BIOS is old/substandard.

A realworld example for you. My GA 6BXD motherboard at home has the
(reasonably) latest BIOS and it even tells on boot that it patched both
CPUs to revision=7 microcode. Yet with my thing I patched it to
revision=14.

> Major 10, minor 184.

thanks. And I will call it /dev/microcode. A bit long for function
prefixes but there won't be many.

Regards,
Tigran.

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