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It is very inconsistent between major microarchitectural revisions, sometimes even between me minor steppings. Sometimes firmware updates can change the decodin
by gpderetta 5y ago
It is very inconsistent between major microarchitectural revisions, sometimes even between me minor steppings. Sometimes firmware updates can change the decoding (usually to fix bugs).
- Jasper_ 5y agoThe firmware can only do this by turning on an extremely slow fallback path. It's not common and it's seen as an avenue of last resort.