From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 14:03:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05068 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05061 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA27291; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: David Vondrasek cc: Bobb Shires , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Disturbing line in dmesg In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, David Vondrasek wrote: > > Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround > > > > Any ideas what this means? Thanks! > > Been looking myself, I get the same message, but I haven't seen any > problems yet from it. I didn't get it in 2.2.6 , just the 2.2.7 kernel. A few months ago someone discovered an exploit for pentium chips that was termed the f00f bug. Your seeing the kernel protect itself. The was OS independent so you should be able to find plenty on deja news. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message