Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:17:02 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium Bug: BSDI Releases a patch (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971113201546.22079C-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113151830.275D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> > do know that I'm glad we didn't cancel our K6 order upon seeing that > > there appears to be an emerging software workaround. Two things still > > make me nervous (both "seen on the net" but unconfirmed): someone said > > that BSDI's patch is now listed as "unavailable", and someone else > > said that their Linux system still locked up after applying the patch. > > Maybe it doesn't work in all cases. :-/ > > If it locks up computers, that's probably why they decided to pull the > patch, which may or may not be available on uu.net's mirror. However > there's still one sure fire fix that will work, and that is to disable the > L1 cache. Sure it'll run slow as heck, but that should grant you some > immunity. If your gonna do that, might as well switch your CPU to a non-intel P5 compatible chip...
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