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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1997: Re: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug

Re: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug

Alan Cox (alanLXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK)
Sat, 8 Nov 1997 23:46:32 +0000 

> Ran it on my P166, kaboom, ran it on my new P166MMX, kaboom. I guess that
> would be a yes. This is kind of scary, is there any possibility of a
> kernel patch that can take care of this?

Not realistically. Intel also of course don't warrant your processor is
fault free either. Perhaps the best bet right now is if you are lucky enough
to have a machine that is under guarantee is to return it and provide all
the mailing list documentation, and news stuff when it hits the news and
ask for a K6 based box right now. Intel at least don't warrant the chip
is perfect.

As a reminder - most 386's crash if fed [size prefix][popad] - there was a
big hoohah then everyone carried on running 386's for unix boxes and stuff
and generally its not a problem.

[Yeah who knows what bugs the newest K6 might have ;)]

Alan