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0 pointscreshal10y ago0 comments

Two 16 KiB ROMs, actually.

(Meanwhile, current Intel processors have 2 MiB microcode files.)

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to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]

1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology

creshalOP10y ago

No, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard.

makomk10y ago

The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.

jokr00410y ago

You know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.

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