From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PetRg-0006NR-Lw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:04:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12234E09A8 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECC2E0871 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2011 17:21:47 -0000 Received: from p54851BA3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.27.163] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 17 Jan 2011 18:21:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+zjKl/xnazLIgFBbNrA25LOGIxc2oNr8RIayoLUO fY4MJ3AitXcAVE Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:21:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:21:48 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD Message-ID: <20110117172148.GD5748@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: ff78e46b-3c87-42a5-9292-70d1d17c67c9 X-Archives-Hash: 6bc3524e1ab1cc83df8f923fac4d1280 Hi, I have two questions: 1) Do I have to enable microcode updates in the BIOS of my Crosshair IV Formula to activate microcodes push in the CPU by the module "microcode" ? (AMD Phenom X6 1090T) 2) Does anyone know, what these microcodes do? They are fixes for... ...what? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc