Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:26:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Richard M. Neswold" <neswold@spiv.fnal.gov> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <hackers@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pentium Bug Fix... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113111843.26396A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113085241.178A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org>
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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. Sheesh. Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093
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