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Microcode Updates for the USENIX 2017 paper: Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode
7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-09-11 · latest 2025-03-06
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comment by rft · 2025-03-06 · in Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility -
…long obsolete AMD K8 CPUs, there was some work on reverse engineering the microcode back in 2017: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode
comment by pabs3 · 2023-11-01 · in Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform -
…internal workings of x86 microcode: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22reverse+engineering+x86+p... https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode https://twitter.com/_markel___/status/1262697756805795841 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5kucyhKF…
comment by peter_d_sherman · 2023-06-18 · in The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020) -
…some security researchers to make custom ucode updates using this toolchain they posted on github: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode
comment by monocasa · 2023-01-31 · in On “I don't trust microcode” (2021) -
…public documentation being the fantastic work to reverse engineer AMD K8 and K10 microcode here https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode ), I'd describe x86 microcode as particularly wide vertical microcode, 64 bit ops in the case of…
comment by monocasa · 2022-01-25 · in Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode -
Related: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode
comment by peter_d_sherman · 2019-09-12 · in 35C3 – Inside the AMD Microcode ROM -
…microcode. See the exploits that check for magic register values at [0] and the paper at [1]. [0]: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode/tree/master/updates [1]: http://syssec.rub.de/research/publications/microcode-reversi...
comment by jevinskie · 2017-09-11 · in Breaking the x86 Instruction Set: how to find undocumented x86 instructions