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To: michael@blueneptune.com
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD fix for Intel Pentium "f00f" bug? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:13:53 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:57:19 -0800
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>I haven't seen a reply yet to my message from last week, and I am
>still wondering what we can expect in terms of a patch for FreeBSD
>for the Pentium invalid instruction bug.  A fix has been integrated
>into BSDI and Linux, and it is important for FreeBSD-based ISPs to
>get a fix, to protect any Pentium system which allows general user
>access.  I haven't seen any official statement from the FreeBSD team
>yet, at least not in the freebsd-announce or freebsd-isp groups.

   There is a FreeBSD fix floating around. It hasn't been adequately tested
and thus hasn't been integrated into FreeBSD. There are many things to
consider...this is not an easy thing to fix. Please be patient. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project