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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:17:49 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
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> Actually, during boot-up, something along the lines of "installing new
> microcode" or "installing new firmware" or something like that scrolls
> by. That always worried me, but I figured it either got reversed at the
> next reboot or it was too late to do anything about it, and it never
> caused any trouble.
>
> I am curious what that's all about, tho.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/2678
Typically, microcode updates are loaded by the BIOS, but not everyone
updates their BIOS when new microcode is released for their CPU.
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FE
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