Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:09:17 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Bug Fix... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113130811.6998B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113111843.26396A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Richard M. Neswold wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > > > Oh thats good, just what we need. Hack a damn module binary to figure out > > what it is doing. Anybody have any real data on how this might be > > repaired? > > > > > > Richard M. Neswold wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Apparently Intel has helped BSDI in creating a fix to the Pentium bug: > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.1/M310-hangfix > > I never said it could directly be used in FreeBSD; I thought it was > interesting that Intel helped BSDI come up with a fix (before Microsoft.) I > also thought my posting would give kernel-knowledgable people another > direction in which to solve this problem. > > I apologize, Jamil, for not posting the exact lines of code needed to fix > the problem. I would be interested in seeing the alledged Linux 'fix'. -- David Cross ACS Consultant
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