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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:52:44 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>
Cc:        Erich Boleyn <erich@uruk.org>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentium CPU steppings 
Message-ID:  <2942.849289964@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 1996 01:42:00 %2B0800." <199611291742.BAA19182@spinner.DIALix.COM> 

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In message <199611291742.BAA19182@spinner.DIALix.COM>, Peter Wemm writes:
>
>peter@spinner[1:34am]~/fdiv-128> ./chk 
>x = 4195835.000000, y = 3145727.000000, result = 256.000000, FDIV BUG 
>PRESENT
>peter@spinner[1:34am]~/fdiv-130> dmesg | grep Step
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x521  Stepping=1

Well, call intel and get a new :-)

>Hmm, I wonder if it's safe to test for this at the end of npx.c in the 
>kernel?

Linux can do it, so why couldn't we ?

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