Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2 | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:56:26 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Regarding this lamearse cpuid thing. Is the off switch and on/off switch?
Intel claim its a one way off switch per boot. C't I think it was published some tricks to get around this but they appear to alter the BIOS settings and then reboot. Not something that will go unnoticed on a Linux box even if it does under that other OS. Phil Karn and Ingo's patches both turn it off regardless of BIOS setting
Don't worry. You've got unique ethernet, disk firmware revision and possibly even BIOS serial numbers you can't turn off anyway
Alan
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