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mmastrac 4 hours ago

Did the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?

nand2mario 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

NooneAtAll3 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

there are several iterations of 386 and only one was disassembled

so there's still a chance