Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:07:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Kernel option NO_F00F_HACK Message-ID: <20000720120731.B1377@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <397722AD.427D36AE@gmx.de>; from "Siegbert Baude" on Thu Jul 20 18:02:53 GMT 2000 References: <397722AD.427D36AE@gmx.de>
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In the last episode (Jul 20), Siegbert Baude said:
> Hi,
> is this kernel option a workaround for a known Pentium bug (feature?
> :-) )? If so did Intel remove this bug in newer chips? Or asked in a
> different way: Is this option still necessary for all generations of
> Pentiums from Pentium 60 to Pentium III 1 GHz?
All 586-class chips from Intel suffer from the bug afaik. The pII and
pIII aren't Pentiums for the purposes of the F00F test, they're
686-class CPUs. Blame Intel for their goofy naming scheme ("haha!
we'll stop using numbers at all, and call everything Pentium from now
on!")
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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