Re: Pentium bug fix

Tuukka Toivonen (tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:06:55 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Gerard Paul Java wrote:

>I'm already running 2.0.32 which fixes the f00f bug. However, I'm very
>curious as to exactly how the invalid opcode was trapped. I have the

Intel pages describe this older workaround:
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/ppiie/descrip.htm#Workaround

However, in 2.0.33 and never Linux kernels an another workaround (a better
one) is used.

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