Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:05:59 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: Katmai/PIII support |
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On 4 Feb 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Curious, can the instructions required to retrive the serial number be run > > from userspace? > > > > It is probably controllable by the kernel.
reportedly theres an MSR bit to switch it off. I just dont know the number, otherwise i'd have included it in the Katmai patch. (Later on we might make it configurable/detectable/per-process/per-user-switchable once people start running those ID-'enhanced' applications under Wine.)
-- mingo
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