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To: kpf who wrote (240334)	9/12/2007 9:47:36 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: I understood it so that not only a fraction of the stepping is affected from the bug and also there is a microcode-patch for this bug. If so all such code would show whether you have a bios with an appropriate patch for it - which you can find out by just looking at the bios version. But then, maybe i have a misconception here. All processors have bugs, but it's fairly rare that a processor is shipped that can't be fixed with a bios update (the FDIV is a well known exception, but that was many years ago - and note use of term "shipped"). The bugs that are listed in the errata of shipping processors typically apply to all chips from that stepping so the identical bios is used for all chips (and it "fixes" the bug).