alt Hacker NewsDid the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?
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NooneAtAll3 • today at 6:26 PM
there are several iterations of 386 and only one was disassembled
so there's still a chance
Did the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?
there are several iterations of 386 and only one was disassembled
so there's still a chance
Not really. The 386 does not have an interface to read the ROM direclty. Instead, it uses the Built-In Self-Test (BIST) to verify the ROM's contents. It's basically a checksum-like mechanism that verify the integrity of the CROM.