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mmastrac
28 days ago
Did the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?
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nand2mario
28 days ago
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.
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NooneAtAll3
28 days ago
there are several iterations of 386 and only one was disassembled
so there's still a chance
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