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On December 13th AMD have said they will be showing off more of their new CPU architecture named Zen.

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This is exciting, hopefully they don't have any sudden issues. I am really hoping Zen is close to what they have been hyping recently.

This will be the first time the public gets to actually use a Zen chip, so it will be interesting. They will be letting "eSports & Evil Geniuses legend PPD" put it through its paces, I'm not going to pretend I know who that is, should I know? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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badber Dec 17, 2016
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: GuestWon't buy a new x86-CPU until they remove their microcode.

Why exactly? CPUs have had microcode basically forever and you've been able to upload new revisions for a long, long time.
Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.

What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
niarbeht Dec 19, 2016
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: GuestWon't buy a new x86-CPU until they remove their microcode.

Why exactly? CPUs have had microcode basically forever and you've been able to upload new revisions for a long, long time.
Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.

What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.

You do realize the AMD chip probably has built-in microcode, but just has no method of updating it, right?
badber Dec 20, 2016
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: GuestWon't buy a new x86-CPU until they remove their microcode.

Why exactly? CPUs have had microcode basically forever and you've been able to upload new revisions for a long, long time.
Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.

What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.

Both of those processors probably have microcode. Also, seems to me like AMD has supported updating the microcode at least from 1999: https://www.dcddcc.com/docs/2014_paper_microcode.pdf
niarbeht Dec 20, 2016
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: GuestWon't buy a new x86-CPU until they remove their microcode.

Why exactly? CPUs have had microcode basically forever and you've been able to upload new revisions for a long, long time.
Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.

What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.

Both of those processors probably have microcode. Also, seems to me like AMD has supported updating the microcode at least from 1999: https://www.dcddcc.com/docs/2014_paper_microcode.pdf

As a sidenote, wasn't the floating-point calculation problem that Pentiums had (y'know, those 90's-era CPUs) caused, and fixed, by microcode?
badber Dec 23, 2016
Quoting: niarbeht
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: badber
Quoting: GuestWon't buy a new x86-CPU until they remove their microcode.

Why exactly? CPUs have had microcode basically forever and you've been able to upload new revisions for a long, long time.
Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.

What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.

Both of those processors probably have microcode. Also, seems to me like AMD has supported updating the microcode at least from 1999: https://www.dcddcc.com/docs/2014_paper_microcode.pdf

As a sidenote, wasn't the floating-point calculation problem that Pentiums had (y'know, those 90's-era CPUs) caused, and fixed, by microcode?

Seems like the FDIV bug wouldn't have been fixable with just updateable microcode according to this: https://www.ele.uva.es/~jesman/BigSeti/ftp/Cajon_Desastre/MPR/111204.pdf
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