Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:36:19 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: incorrect 'buggy K6' warning |
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> > Nov 14 15:33:01 wormhole kernel: AMD K6 stepping B detected - system stability > > ay be impaired. Please see. > > Nov 14 15:33:01 wormhole kernel: http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug_faq.htmlLinux > > However, this is a week 32 K6, i.e. one that doesn't have the bug. > > There isn't a decent way to detect a 'good' and 'bad' one. AMD really really > should have bumped up the stepping mask on the fixed chips and we wouldn't have > these annoying false warnings.
There is a way. I saw some code from <forgot> to detect this. Trick is, that not only bugfix, it also did minor performance enhancement - which can be detected.
Pavel
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