Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:12:15 -0800 (PST) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: To Intel or not to Intel, that is the question. (And hardware compatability) |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi, > > > Of the x86 family, I do not know of any CPU with a faster FPU than Intel. > > Note that the Cyrix chips have at least one bug of their own, having > > nearly the same affect on the chip as the Pentium exploit. The workaround > > is not as effective as the Pentium one, nor is it built into the kernel. > > The workaround need not to be built in the kernel as it's sufficient > to use the setcx86 utility to do the job.
I'm a little out of wind after a long explanation of this with Pavel Machek, so I'll just be breif. The workaound doesn't work for me. kernel 2.1.6x, Cyrix 6x86 step 1 rev 7 P150+, Tyan Titan III. It stops the COMA, but after stopping it, the system is unstable and crashes in X.
BTW, it's set6x86.
cheers, -bp -- B. James Phillippe <bryan@Terran.ORG> UNIX, Linux, networks, C, Perl, Java, etc.
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