Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Pentium II Math Bug | Date | Wed, 7 May 1997 20:42:36 +0100 (BST) |
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> Of course no other microchip besides the Pentium's have ever > experience any sort of flaw in their microcode programming, right? Think > about it for a little bit and tell me that it isn't possible Intel flaws > are getting much more attention than they deserve?
Indeed. From a Linux point of view the worst one are often the least well known
o P6 spurious IRQ bug (ask LNZ how much fun it was) o Pentium B/C stepping SMP bugs o 486 'write to memory I dont own' FPU bug o 386 POPAD in 16bit cs
The FPU bug in the pentium was a nuisance, these others have trivial work arounds. And yes all CPU's have bugs - just read the sparc source code before moaning about intel bugs!
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