Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:05:47 -0600 (CST) | From | Gregory Youngblood <> | Subject | Re: eip in 2.0.26 |
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Nathan Bryant wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Greg Siekas wrote: > > > Anyone else seen this, I got this under a very heavy load of file i/o and > > computation. I had notice Linus' email about Pentium chips with a > > stepping of 5, and that's what I've got so I booted with mem=nopentium and > > I got this EIP while running my code. > > Hmm. I've been having some weird problems with a system. It's been giving > me OOPSes and then after that every time a process started, another OOPS, > until I hit the reset button. I saw this message, checked my > /proc/cpuinfo, and lo and behold! it's a pentium with stepping of 5. > > Unfortunately, I missed Linus' warning about these chips. Can somebody > fill me in? Do I need to replace the chip or is there some workaround?
I missed Linus' message as well, and I just found out I also have a stepping of 5 on my p100. Here's what my cpuinfo says calvin:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 586 model : Pentium 75+ vendor_id : GenuineIntel stepping : 5 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid : yes wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 40.04
is there anything else I should worry about?
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