Intel Core2 Duo Processor E8000 and E7000 Series Specification Update
Summary Tables of Changes
Intel
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Core
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2 Duo Processor
Specification Update – December 2010 11
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C0 M0 E0 R0 Plan
ERRATA
AW40 X X X X No Fix
A WB Store Following a REP STOS/MOVS or FXSAVE May
Lead to Memory-Ordering Violations
AW41 X Fixed
VM Exit with Exit Reason “TPR Below Threshold” Can Cause
the Blocking by MOV/POP SS and Blocking by STI Bits to be
Cleared in the Guest Interruptibility-State Field
AW42 X X X X No Fix
Using Memory Type Aliasing with cacheable and WC
Memory Types May Lead to Memory Ordering Violations
AW43 X X No Fix
VM Exit Caused by a SIPI Results in Zero to be Saved to the
Guest RIP Field in the VMCS
AW44 X X Fixed NMIs May Not Be Blocked by a VM-Entry Failure
AW45 X X Fixed
Partial Streaming Load Instruction Sequence May Cause the
Processor to Hang
AW46 X X Fixed
Self/Cross Modifying Code May Not be Detected or May
Cause a Machine Check Exception
AW47 X X Fixed
Data TLB Eviction Condition in the Middle of a Cacheline
Split Load Operation May Cause the Processor to Hang
AW48 X X Fixed
Update of Read/Write (R/W) or User/Supervisor (U/S) or
Present (P) Bits without TLB Shootdown May Cause
Unexpected Processor Behavior
AW49 X X Fixed
RSM Instruction Execution under Certain Conditions May
Cause Processor Hang or Unexpected Instruction Execution
Results
AW50 X X X X No Fix
Benign Exception after a Double Fault May Not Cause a
Triple Fault Shutdown
AW51 X X X X Plan Fix
Short Nested Loops That Span Multiple 16-Byte Boundaries
May Cause a Machine Check Exception or a System Hang
AW52 X X X X No Fix
An Enabled Debug Breakpoint or Single Step Trap May Be
Taken after MOV SS/POP SS Instruction if it is Followed by
an Instruction That Signals a Floating Point Exception
AW53 X X X X No Fix LER MSRs May be Incorrectly Updated
AW54 X X X X No Fix
IA32_MC1_STATUS MSR Bit[60] Does Not Reflect Machine
Check Error Reporting Enable Correctly
AW55 X X No Fix
A VM Exit Due to a Fault While Delivering a Software
Interrupt May Save Incorrect Data into the VMCS
AW56 X X No Fix
A VM Exit Occuring in IA-32e Mode May Not Produce a VMX
Abort When Expected
AW57 X X X X No Fix
IRET under Certain Conditions May Cause an Unexpected
Alignment Check Exception
AW58 X X X X Plan Fix PSI# Signal Asserted During Reset
AW59 X X X X No Fix
Thermal Interrupts are Dropped During and While Exiting
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Deep Power-Down State
AW60 X X X X No Fix
VM Entry May Fail When Attempting to Set
IA32_DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_WHILE_SMM_EN