Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:49:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Vladimir Dergachev <> | Subject | Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2 |
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jim Freeman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:54:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > - disables PIII serial# on all CPUs (Doug Ledford) > > > [we might make this configurable in the future for Wine > > > compatibility] > > > > Serve up the serial# from the entropy pool :-) > > Presumably they have some sort of check code built in. Best to just force > it off and tell people to forget they ever heard of it. As long as PIII's > with serial numbers enabled don't become a significant fraction of the > entire x86 market, having access to it won't matter.
Actually a simpler solution is to obtain one serial number and give it back as default.
Vladimir Dergachev
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