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

[Rogier Wolff]

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 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. 

.... On the other hand, you don't know what is "below" the 5, as the
BIOS may have upgraded a stepping 3 CPU to a stepping 5. Short of
intercepting the CPU right after reset there is nothing you can do to
determine the hardware level, right?

				Roger.

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