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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by throwaway2048 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @12:11PM (#14630678)
There are hardware bugs that are impossible to fix in microcode. What then?
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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by baq on Sunday June 25, 2017 @12:15PM (#14630706)
you make workarounds in software, obviously.
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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by userbinator on Sunday June 25, 2017 @12:26PM (#14630773)
...or recall all the hardware and replace it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by coldtea on Sunday June 25, 2017 @01:29PM (#14631107)
There will always be. What then? We stop producing cpus and wait for some magical new technology that prevents all bugs?
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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by throwaway2048 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @01:40PM (#14631168)
Its why you can't treat hardware bugs and dismiss them flippantly like software ones.
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