From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764864AbXF1R2L (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:28:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756936AbXF1R16 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:58 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56660 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755810AbXF1R16 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4683EF87.1050303@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:35 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Bill Davidsen , Andi Kleen , Daniel J Blueman , Shaohua Li , jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode... References: <6278d2220703221645j760a8816v4b8749ea2d60e493@mail.gmail.com> <1174610594.6598.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <6278d2220706261442u9b137c5xb6225b3f56605554@mail.gmail.com> <4683BD56.7070707@tmr.com> <1183039975.14676.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1183039975.14676.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > (while I work for Intel this is not an official Intel statement, but > there is so much FUD going around now that I feel I need to at least > point out a few things others "forget") >> Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel >> microcode was being fixed. > > don't just always believe everything you read on slashdot please > >> However, it listed only Windows related sites >> for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really >> fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? > > First of all, Linux has microcode updates as well. Some of the more > hypish news-bulletins just conveniently "forgot" about this. Basically > all distributions ship them, so users who use the distro update tools > get these automatically. And the update mentioned has been shipping for > a while (in version 1.17). > Fedora 6 has version 1.13 Fedora 7 also has 1.13 RHEL 5 has 1.15 Debian stable has 1.15 (9 Oct 2006) Suse 10.1 has 1.13