Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Herold
Are people aware that is it possible to update the microcode of a cpu with an updated bios? I don't think so. On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:19:55AM +0200, Oliver Herold wrote: > > This is nice, but some people are experiencing this ce

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:19:55AM +0200, Oliver Herold wrote: > This is nice, but some people are experiencing this certain kind of problem. > Maybe you have got the latest bios already :-) Are people aware that there is no BIOS in a CPU, and that this is referring to processor microcode? Steppi

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Herold
This is nice, but some people are experiencing this certain kind of problem. Maybe you have got the latest bios already :-) On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:41:56AM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 6/28/07, Andrei Kolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> According to Theo de Raadth >> http://ma

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 6/28/07, Andrei Kolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to Theo de Raadth http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631 latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures are taken within FreeBSD community? ___ freebsd

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Stephan Uphoff
Andrei Kolu wrote: According to Theo de Raadth http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631 latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures are taken within FreeBSD community? The MMU specification updates described in the documented were easily handled

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Jase Thew
Andrei Kolu wrote: According to Theo de Raadth http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631 latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures are taken within FreeBSD community? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Herold
Apart from possible future security flaws, this problem is already fixed http://blog.springdaemons.com/articles/2007/05/03/intel-critical-microcode-update Cheers, Oliver On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:42:23PM +0300, Andrei Kolu wrote: > According to Theo de Raadth > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-mis

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:42:23PM +0300, Andrei Kolu wrote: > According to Theo de Raadth > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631 > latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures > are taken within FreeBSD community? I voiced similar concerns on a tech