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
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