top | item 16103515 (no title) TomV1971 | 8 years ago That was a very long time ago.Microcode can be loaded by the BIOS. discuss order hn newest xxs|8 years ago Most of the microcode nowadays is loaded by the OS (not BIOS) chopin|8 years ago Today I learned something.Doesn't that open a huge attack surface? This code would run super-privileged isn't it? load replies (1) Operyl|8 years ago Can also be loaded at boot time by the kernel, etc. cjbprime|8 years ago Or even after boot time, I think -- you shut down one CPU at a time to load it.
xxs|8 years ago Most of the microcode nowadays is loaded by the OS (not BIOS) chopin|8 years ago Today I learned something.Doesn't that open a huge attack surface? This code would run super-privileged isn't it? load replies (1)
chopin|8 years ago Today I learned something.Doesn't that open a huge attack surface? This code would run super-privileged isn't it? load replies (1)
Operyl|8 years ago Can also be loaded at boot time by the kernel, etc. cjbprime|8 years ago Or even after boot time, I think -- you shut down one CPU at a time to load it.
xxs|8 years ago
chopin|8 years ago
Doesn't that open a huge attack surface? This code would run super-privileged isn't it?
Operyl|8 years ago
cjbprime|8 years ago