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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 09:24:00AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > can this 'discussion' please be moved to ms-dos-weenies or something? > > Right on cue. I _told_ someone you'd be first. > > You may not run any networking gear that uses Pentium CPUs, but there > are _many_ who do. The message was posted to NODlist as well, anyone > who's afraid of pissing Randy off, take it there. not to get to off topic and such.. but it feels slightly approriate to say that linux 2.1.63 already has a bug fix for the pent F0 0F bug.. got this from a friend who's running a 2.1.x kernel.. checking for F00F bug ...<6> Intel Pentium/[MMX] F0 0F bug detected - turning on workaround. moving IDT ... ... done [[email protected] /]# ./pentium_lockup Illegal instruction (core dumped) apparently it traps the op codes before they go on to the cpu.. .--------------------------------------------------------- | Aaron Beck, Internetworking Engineer. E: [email protected] | Meridian Partners Limited. We Simply Do More. http://www.mpl.net `------------------------------------------------------------------
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