OpenBSD is expanding its support by finally being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates. It was reported that this comes with the latest code, which supports the update with new abilities. OpenBSD ...

My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...

DebianでAMDのCPUを使用しているのに、intel-microcodeというIntel用のマイクロコードアップグレードが表示されてしまう、そんな ...

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It's been months since the first reports of Intel's Core i9 processors being unstable in Unreal Engine games, but a small step toward a solution has been made, with the discovery in the code that ...

Infosec boffins have released a tool to decrypt and unpack the microcode for a class of low-power Intel CPUs, opening up a way to look at how the chipmaker has implemented various security fixes and ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

前回までに紹介してきたように、 initrdは元々、 モジュール化されたカーネル・ ドライバを、 HDD上のファイルシステムを介することなくカーネルに組み込むための仕組みとして考案されました。 きちんと確認したわけではないものの、 initrdのルーツは ...

Just like in this issue, I seem to be having trouble with the microcode check on Ubuntu 18.04 (though I’m not using Digital Ocean, but rather another hosting service). | Processor microcode update │ │ ...