On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:26:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
Another thing that should not be forgotten is that the family of processors vs the ability to make use of firmware patches to fix bugs took a hit since family ID's of $0F and below could not be fixed with microcode. And many of them had a halt bug that if encountered, had no recovery except a full power down restart.
That was actually fixed in software, and on an older system you'd see something about "F00F bug workaround" in dmesg. At any rate it's a moot point as intel doesn't issue microcode updates for processors more than a few years old; the fact that it's *possible* to update certain ancient processors but not others is no more than a curiosity compared to the fact that neither is updated in practice.
