Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2.3-ac1-dj1 | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:13:36 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990315183617.6904B-100000@moppsy.comp.glam.ac.uk>, "D ave Jones." writes: +----- | On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: | > > Differences between Linux 2.2.3-ac1-dj1 and 2.2.3-dj1 | > > o Code to handle f00f bug only compiled in for Pentiums. | > You don't want to do this. Now you have a kernel that boots on a 486 | > and lets users crash the machine | | How so? F00F bug only works on Pentium or have I got this /completely/ | wrong ??? +--->8
But many Linux distributions ship with only one compiled kernel: the 386 kernel, because it works on every x86 processor. So disabling the F00F check on 386 kernels is a bad idea.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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