Re: New pentium bug workaround - please test..

Thomas Roessler (roessler@guug.de)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 03:31:41 +0100


Linus Torvalds schrieb am 18. November 1997:

> Anyway, this approach still needs to be debugged, but I'm told by intel
> that it should indeed work, and I have a patch for people to try out.
> Right now the patch is only for 2.1.x (relative to 2.1.65, in fact), but
> once it has turned out to be a good patch we can very easily back-port it
> into 2.0.x too - just to make sure that all the corner cases are squashed.

This works on a single-processor i586/100, stepping 6,
with an SMP-enabled kernel.

tlr

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