From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 23:40:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA07756 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (root@gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07735 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA15631 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10838 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12969 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:07 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199711140740.XAA12969@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:06 -0800 In-Reply-To: Sean Eric Fagan "Re: Pentium Bug to be ignored -- say it ain't so" (Nov 13, 9:04pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium Bug to be ignored -- say it ain't so Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 13, 9:04pm, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: } Subject: Re: Pentium Bug to be ignored -- say it ain't so } Note his declaration that this is "hardly a critical emergency". And that } he assumes BSDi has thrown out their solution -- which I haven't heard them } say at all. (I don't know why BSDi withdrew their patch; I can think of } several reasons, actually. And SCO has not, to the best of my knowledge, } withdrew *their* patch.) What SCO patch? The only SCO patch I've heard of is a PPro and P-II microcode patch, and those processors don't have the Pentium lockup problem.