Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:30:15 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> To: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) a fix? Message-ID: <199711101930.NAA08588@argus.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971110133159.20797A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> from Alfred Perlstein at "Nov 10, 97 01:33:30 pm"
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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+
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