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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.2.3-ac1-dj1
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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.

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