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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:09:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentium Bug Fix...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113130811.6998B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113111843.26396A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov>

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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Richard M. Neswold wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Oh thats good, just what we need.  Hack a damn module binary to figure out
> > what it is doing.  Anybody have any real data on how this might be
> > repaired?
> >
> > >  > Richard M. Neswold wrote:
> > >  > > 
> > >  > > Apparently Intel has helped BSDI in creating a fix to the Pentium bug:
> > >  > > 
> > >  > >         ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.1/M310-hangfix
> 
> I never said it could directly be used in FreeBSD; I thought it was
> interesting that Intel helped BSDI come up with a fix (before Microsoft.) I
> also thought my posting would give kernel-knowledgable people another
> direction in which to solve this problem.
> 
> I apologize, Jamil, for not posting the exact lines of code needed to fix
> the problem.
I would be interested in seeing the alledged Linux 'fix'.

--
David Cross
ACS Consultant




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