From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 10 11:30:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA22351 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from unix.tfs.net (root@unix.tfs.net [199.79.146.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA22345 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbryant@argus.tfs.net) Received: from argus.tfs.net (pm3-p10.tfs.net [206.154.183.202]) by unix.tfs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20005; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:29:03 -0600 Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA08588; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:30:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199711101930.NAA08588@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) a fix? In-Reply-To: from Alfred Perlstein at "Nov 10, 97 01:33:30 pm" To: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:30:15 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: jbryant@tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 9 01:01:24 CDT 1997 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk RECALL RECALL RECALL In reply: > i don't know the logistics of doing this but what about an adapter that > sits between the pentium and the socket that snoops for that code coming > though the instruction line and mangles it into something different? > > would that work? is it feasable? > > -Alfred > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > can't to my knowledge, unless you are going to have your OS's check each > > > opcode before it is executed (for CS people out there that is > > > O(really-nasty) ;). > > > > You could always use a two processor box and burn one processor to > > watchdog the other. 8-). > > > > > > Terry Lambert > > terry@lambert.org > > --- > > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > > or previous employers. > > > > -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+