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Don't forget the (other) f00f bug in the Intel Quark![1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
by rincebrain 10y ago
Don't forget the (other) f00f bug in the Intel Quark![1]
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug
- makomk 10y agoYeah, that was kind of unfortunate as it made the Intel Quark incompatible with all normal Linux distros. I don't think it even had any kind of microcode update facility, being effectively a slightly updated 486.
- rincebrain 10y agoEven with a runtime microcode update facility, no BIOS update equivalent would still make it pretty fatal for packaging except as an entirely distinct build target, because otherwise you'd need to do something kinky like always first booting a custom kernel+initrd target built to involve no locks, load the microcode update, then kexec into the real kernel.