On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:25:08PM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > http://www.geek.com/images/geeknews/2006Jan/core_duo_errata__2006_01_21__full .gif > "Show stopper" "Potentially Catastrophic" Those are some warm and fuzzy > words =) > > Geez, that's a whole lot of bugs... I never imagined that processors > could be so "bugged". > Theo says that AMD is getting less helpful towards open source OS. > Well, that's great. We only have 2 big proc developers for i386, and > now those two are turning out crap products with diminishing > documentation =( > > I wonder where this road will lead us.
If you really want to know... http://strombergson.com/kryptoblog/?p=311 I'd really love to read a translation of that document, but it seems to say something along the lines of... Basically, the new Celeron seems to have a separate memory and process manager that can hide the thread and memory that does ... stuff. But the chip is creepier than that. If I am understanding Strvmbergson correctly, this chip is the first step in a brave new world where you have no clue what really goes on when you buy a chip. About Strombergson: Strvmbergson is one of Sweden's foremost experts on hardware design (ASIC) and keeps a couple of software patents too (trie sorting ip addresses for routing i.e). -- Or not. Today is Pungenday, the 32nd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
