On 09/17/2015 11:19 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
OK, thanks, I knew there was this patch RAM, but didn't know the purpose.On 9/17/15 8:55 PM, Jon Elson wrote:Certainly not Intel CPUs. All of the microcode patches are loaded via special instruction sequences (described in the SDM). The microcode patch RAM is in the CPU and not visible to S/W.I think the later X86 machines have a tiny block of patch microcode that is available to the OS to put special routines into.
Jon
