Re: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:43 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >>but what what's the
> >>penalty of preventing microcode from loading? a performance
> >>hit?
> > 
> > 
> > not even that; in theory a few cpu bugs may have been fixed. Nobody
> > really knows since there's no changelog for the microcode..
> 
> You can see the processor bugs in intel website, i.e.:
> ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon/specupdt/24967847.pdf
> 
> The following sentence (IMHO) meens that bug is corrected in microcode:
> "Workaround: It is possible for the BIOS to contain a workaround
> for this erratum."

yeah but it doesn't say in which microcode. Eg it's not possible to find
out what a specific microcode update changes over the one the bios
already put in...


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