linux forced the electrons to say:
> There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following
> code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no
> MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard
This is old!! I remember using this to crash a slackware 3.?? machine while I
was in IITB. It didn't crash RedHat even then (5.0, I think). RHL used a
kernel which had a workaround enabled against this bug. The kernel, when
booting, used to say, "Pentium <something> CPU detected with f00f bug -
workaround enabled".
Even now you can see if the bug exists in your CPU - cat /proc/cpuinfo, and
look for f00f_bug. If it says yes, then it exists (and most likely the
workaround is enabled).
So, this code will not crash Linux systems, I think. I cannot say about other
operating systems, though.
Binand
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