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Re:Custom Processing Unit: Hook, patch, and trace microcode ... by mhh__ on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:39PM (#32441713)
The term microcode has become muddled in that you have microcode for implementing highly complex instructions and "microcode" as-in an internal target that X86 instructions are translated into.
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Re:Custom Processing Unit: Hook, patch, and trace microcode ... by rep_lodsb on Friday August 12, 2022 @05:20PM (#32444063)
The internal instruction format is commonly called micro-ops / uops. But easy to confuse those terms.
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Re:Custom Processing Unit: Hook, patch, and trace microcode ... by mhh__ on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:38PM (#32445258)
I know, however lots of people make it up as they go along.
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