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    SubjectRe: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2


    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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