Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:52:03 -0500 (EST) | From | "Simon's Mailing List Account" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.63 - testing Pentium bug workaround.. |
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I just made 2.1.63 available on the normal ftp site (ftp.kernel.org, > direcoty pub/linux/kernel/v2.1). The most exciting change is probably the > preliminary patch by Ingo Molnar that should work around the by now > well-known Pentium lock-up bug. Many thanks to Ingo who put together the > patch from various snippets of information floating around.
The pentium bugfix works the first time an 'exploit' is run, but the chip locks the second time.
P54C/133mhz 112MB, kernel compiled with gcc 2.7.2.1 kernel compiled (accidentally) for SMP because I forgot to undefine (i'm trying with a uniprocessor kernel now, will report with anything different)
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
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