Chuck Ebbert wrote:
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
that's a fedora bug; we asked them to update it long ago in their
bugzilla. Maybe they updated the datafile, maybe they didn't. Be
careful with just looking at package version numbers, they don't per
se corresponds with versions of the data file.
RHEL 5 has 1.15
be careful, it has the 1.17 datafile in the updates afaik.
but RH doesn't update the package version number.
same may or may not be true for the others, but if you only look at
package versions you don't get the datafile versions.
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