Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support

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

Jan Niehusmann (list005@gondor.com)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:48:18 +0100

- Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
- Next message: Tigran Aivazian: "Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support"
- Previous message: Rui Sousa: "Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support"

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:01:47AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Also, more importantly, Intel manual says "the update must run in the
> early stages of POST and always before L2 cache controllers are
> initialized". I ignored it and it still worked fine.

I don't know much about intel microcode, but perhaps a microcode update
_may_ change cache handling. So it might work with every microcode
update available now (because Intel didn't make any incompatible
changes), but may fail with the next one.

Jan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

- Next message: Tigran Aivazian: "Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support"
- Previous message: Rui Sousa: "Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support"