Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode...
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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> I was mainly concerned with this being a new issue, and curious if 
> Microsoft was calling an O/S bug a "microcode fix," given that the 
> average Windows user doesn't know microcode from nanotech anyway. The 
> non-answer from Arjan didn't answer either, and started by calling the

then ask questions?
Linux 2.6 is not affected.. what more is there to say? Regardless of
that as I said, Intel recommends always running the most current
microcode. 


> I'd like the microcode update, some people elsewhere speculate that user 
> level code could effect reliability if not security.

those "people" are speculating. Simple as that.

(oh and the microcode update is already there as I said... so what's the
problem?)


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