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I remember reading something about this bug can allow any user to lock
the machine ... the workaround mentioned 'protects' the OS/users from
this happening...
see
http://www.bio.net//hypermail/BIO-SOFTWARE/9801/0092.html
for more details
I thing the other I386 based OS's have a similiar patch it's just we get
to see this in more detail as apposed to it being covered up!
I hope this puts your mind at rest...
Surjit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 January 1999 01:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Pentium F0 0F bug!!!
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"Matthew D. Howell" wrote:
> I also have a 233 MMX laptop and get the same error. Does anyone know
what
> this means or if it is a real threat?
>
> matt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> (If the HTML encoding appears, sorry, haven't got ppp to work in Linux
yet
> and am using outlook express and have tried turning it off in the
setup)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zulfiqar Naushad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 10:30 AM
> Subject: [SuSE Linux] Pentium F0 0F bug!!!
>
> >
> >Ahem.
> >
> >Nosing around in my /proc directory.........I noticed that the
> /proc/cpuinfo
> >file says that I have the F0 0F bug. How in the heck is that
possible when
> my
> >computer is about 11 months old. I have a P-233 MMX.
All bugs are not fixed in hardware (ever). Some not so serious bugs are
just
worked around in software. If you read carefully you might also see
something
about "workaround enabled" in your boot messages.
Rick
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