methylzero@mast.hpc.social (@methylzero@mast.hpc.social)
Computational chemist, acting sysadmin, hardware enthusiast, programmer. A Swiss army knife of STEM skills.
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In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy.
Senza categoria@mdione @gabrielesvelto The small flash chip that holds the UEFI and other firmware components also has the µcode patch on it. The chip sits on a simple bus (usually SPI), so it can be directly wired into the CPU and accessed immediately after the system comes out of reset.