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To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>
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Subject: Re: Pentium CPU steppings 
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:52:44 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.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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