Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:22:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: eip in 2.0.26 |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> 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? >
I don't have the message, but the gist of it was that Linus suspects there is a bug in pentium chips with a stepping of 5. The bug is in the 4MB page table extensions; the workaround is to specify mem=nopentium on the kernel command line.
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