Reply 20 of 30, by nekurahoka
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agent_x007 was kind enough to provide functional info from his build to get me as far as I did with my BIOS work. That was quite some time ago. It was enough to verify that the microcode for this processor was present in the beta BIOS builds for the ASUS board we're talking about.
scali, I think you're right in terms of how far the boot process goes. I expect any BIOS is essentially going to run basic x86 instructions in order to work with any intel processor, then in boot phase will move to the specific set that the microcode dictates. At that point the software will have to support the configuration and it fails. agent_x007's 900 series chipset is a known quantity in terms of supporting these capabilities. I might have another go at it at some point, but I'm pretty satisified with my current group of builds.
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