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xxstoday at 10:26 AM1 replyview on HN

of course, it's hot-swap material, the microcode is 1st deployed by the bios, then the OS can apply changes as well.

Just that it's writable by $ (not #) feels awkward.


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altairprimetoday at 9:40 PM

> Of course it’s hot-swap

Microcode updates like this didn’t exist when I first learned sysadmin, so I guess I don’t take such things for granted, sorry!

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