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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how large are the microcode updates? Or rather, what is
> the range of sizes that you've seen?

Each chunk is 2048 bytes long of which only 2000 bytes are the data bits
sent to the cpus. See struct microcode in <asm/processor.h>

Regards
Tigran