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

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 05:11:31 EST

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> One could go and tweak that data after the update. But even if not
> (export restrictions (kernel->modules), it is still better to have a
> bugfree CPU reported as buggy than to have a buggy CPU reported as such?

I think that the best way to report this is something like:

  stepping : 14 (5)

meaning that the stepping is now 14, but the hardware is level 5.

                                Roger. 

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