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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?
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Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.Won'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.
What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
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for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.Won'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.
What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
You do realize the AMD chip probably has built-in microcode, but just has no method of updating it, right?
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for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.Won'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.
What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
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
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for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.Won'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.
What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
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?
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for my free system I have an older AMD CPU from 2008 and I have a NanoPi M1 too.Sorry, I meant until they remove their non-free microcode.Won'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.
What CPUs with free microcode are you using then?
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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