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

[Jan Niehusmann]

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