Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761208AbXF1P15 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:27:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756832AbXF1P1v (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:27:51 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:40548 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756745AbXF1P1u (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:27:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:27:47 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Andi Kleen , Daniel J Blueman , Shaohua Li , jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode... Message-ID: <20070628152747.GA14519@one.firstfloor.org> References: <6278d2220703221645j760a8816v4b8749ea2d60e493@mail.gmail.com> <1174610594.6598.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <6278d2220706261442u9b137c5xb6225b3f56605554@mail.gmail.com> <4683BD56.7070707@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4683BD56.7070707@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 27 > Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel > microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites That's a little misleading. Always dangerous getting your information from slashdot. Let's say Intel clarified some corner cases in TLB flushing that have changed with Core2 and not everybody got that right. I wouldn't say it was a Intel bug though. > for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really I think so. > fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? On newer Linux 2.6 yes. On 2.4/x86-64 you would need in theory the microcode update too. (it'll probably show up at some point at the usual place http://urbanmyth.org/microcode/). Linux/i386 is always fine. But the problem is very obscure and you can likely ignore it too. If your machine crashes it's very likely something else. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/