Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:57:19 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: michael@blueneptune.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD fix for Intel Pentium "f00f" bug? Message-ID: <199711182357.PAA19896@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:13:53 PST." <199711182313.PAA22592@rainey.blueneptune.com>
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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
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