Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:44:52 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium F00F bug Message-ID: <355F9294.580BB181@dal.net> References: <199805172218.IAA03007@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > > There's an interesting article on the F00F bug by Robert Collins > <rcollins@x86.org> in May Dr Dobbs Journal. He discusses the adverse > impacts of Intel's recommended work-arounds (one of which we use). When the bug was first described there was wide difference of opinion on how it "should" be fixed. A more efficient way of doing it would doubtlessly be a good thing, however given that no one who wanted a better way to solve the problem has coded it yet, I don't anticipate it happening any time soon. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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