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Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features by GuiA on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:23AM (#16221198)
Well, you’ll only understand 100% of it if you’re a kernel developer (and a good one at that). What’s your target? Knowing C and fundamentals of computer architecture + OS design probably gets you to 20-30%. Having spent a bit of time around the Linux kernel itself (writing extensions, drivers, read random blog posts, etc) might get you 60-70%, and so on.

The book you’re reading is very good, your time probably isn’t wasted reading it.

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Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features by 6f666579 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:47AM (#16221297)
Thanks! My object is actually merely to understand it myself. I'll stick to reading the book, and then finding a book on OS design etc. as the other commentators suggested.
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