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Wat? All the major hardware manufacturers from Intel to the hundreds of no name ARM licensees fix and cover up major issues in silicon with fixes in microcode (
by StudentStuff 9y ago
Wat? All the major hardware manufacturers from Intel to the hundreds of no name ARM licensees fix and cover up major issues in silicon with fixes in microcode (unless most chips from a particular mask/process are too screwed up, see Intel's 7nm process).
Doing otherwise would throw the onus onto kernel maintainers for Windows, Linux, and the various BSD distros, and they don't want a crapton of one off fixes for the plethora of CPU errata that Intel and others patch in microcode.