Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:49:59 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjwysocki@sisk.pl
Subject: Re: Opteron bug
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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:07:59 +0200
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:

> Andi wrote:
> 
> >The kernel never uses backwards REP prefixes.
> >  
> >
> Huh? memmove uses backwards rep movsb on x86-64, at least in 2.6.5:

Hmm, you're right. I forgot that. Ok, I will change it, although
it's unlikely to be a real problem.
 
> But the bug appears to be so rare that it shouldn't matter - lets wait 
> for the microcode update. Btw, is there a runtime microcode updater for 
> Opteron cpus, similar to the Intel microcode driver?

AMD seems to only release microcode updates to BIOS vendors.

-Andi
 
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