stockfish and microcode intel update

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acconcio
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stockfish and microcode intel update

Post by acconcio »

archlinux does not update automatically intel microcode in new kernel linux, it is important in order to compile and run stockfish?

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Re: stockfish and microcode intel update

Post by Joost Buijs »

I think the microcode update is normally done in the bios.
Probably it is not important for Stockfish anyway.
flok

Re: stockfish and microcode intel update

Post by flok »

Joost Buijs wrote:I think the microcode update is normally done in the bios.
Probably it is not important for Stockfish anyway.
No that is not in all cases true.
Linux has/had userspace code that would "upload" some kind of binary file to the processor.
These files were/are published by intel and contained runtime fixes for the microcode.