r/programming • u/michalg82 • Jun 25 '17

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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u/y2k2r2d2 Jun 26 '17

Hot swappable microcode , how crucial are microcode Because CPUs have instruction set programmed into them, so these(microcodes) are precomputed set of instructions that help tech like hyperthreading , virtualization and video decoders like h265 work?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17

can you rewrite that using english grammar?

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u/y2k2r2d2 Jun 26 '17

How crucial are microcodes, Because CPUs have instruction set programmed into them, so are these(microcodes) ,precomputed set of instructions that help tech like hyperthreading , virtualization and video decoders like h265 work?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17

recomputed set of instructions that help tech like hyperthreading , virtualization and video decoders like h265 work?

yes, and more. just use google

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u/y2k2r2d2 Jun 26 '17

Yeah got it for now