Re: New pentium bug workaround - please test..

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:57:54 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Hans Lermen wrote:
> > Now, that implies that we can actually _keep_ the IDT mapped, and instead
> > of marking it not present we can mark it read-only.
>
> Ah, this one is _much_ better then the Intel solution.
> Congratulation Linus !

Note that the fix was actually suggested by Intel, who phoned me to tell
of it. We should be proud: we were probably among the very first ones
contacted because the people at intel knew we had it together when it came
to this bug.

Linus

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