From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 14:22:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03279 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03256 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA06106; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:22:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:22:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" cc: MALCOLM BOFF , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.2.2-RELEASE to 2.2.6-RELEASE 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 Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > F00F bug is a minor Pentium bug that ppl can crash yer puter with that > insrtuction. it isnt used in regular programming tho, inly malicious > users. > > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > > > 1) The 'dmesg' output from the GENERIC kernel is below and you will notice > > that it reports a Pentium F00F error - I was not aware that this was > > possible > > on a 233Mhz Pentium and it did not report this at 2.2.2 whats happening > > here. > > 2.2.6 is protected from F00F...the dmesg output is simply making you aware of it. All Pentiums (sans MMX and II I think, or is it Pro and II?) are susceptible. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message