Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is the BIOS even able to hide the lm bit? Or are operating systems
> supposed to ignore it and use information from the BIOS (DMI?) instead? 

For a decade, Intel and AMD have provided patches that work around
processor bugs and are implemented in microcode that is uploaded
by the BIOS.  Toggling CPU features in the same way isn't exactly
magic.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]
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