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Date:      Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:53:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jason@washington.edu>
To:        Bobb Shires <bobb@ibm.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disturbing line in dmesg
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809070952020.374-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809071633.QAA32220@out5.ibm.net>

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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bobb Shires wrote:

>The last line of my dmesg reads:
>
>Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround
>
>Any ideas what this means?  Thanks!

It means Intel hardware has a bug and that FreeBSD installs a workaround
that prevents the bug from crashing the machine.

This is a good message, not a bad one.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/



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