Cosmetic bug in K6 bug detection

Benoit Poulot-Cazajous (poulot@chorus.fr)
21 Sep 1997 14:56:12 +0200


owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu writes:

Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org> wrote :

> I noticed a cosmetic bug in the new K6 bug detection code added to
> 2.1.55. The following change is needed to include/asm-i386/bugs.h:
>
> - --- include/asm-i386/bugs.h.orig Sun Sep 21 01:01:15 1997
> +++ include/asm-i386/bugs.h Sun Sep 21 01:03:59 1997
> @@ -161,8 +161,8 @@
> /* B Step AMD K6 */
> if(x86_model==6 && x86_mask==1 && memcmp(x86_vendor_id, "AuthenticAMD", 12)==0)
> {
> - - printk(KERN_INFO "AMD K6 stepping B detected - system stability may be impaired. Please see.\n");
> - - printk(KERN_INFO "http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug_faq.html");
> + printk(KERN_INFO "AMD K6 stepping B detected - system stability may be impaired. Please see:\n");
> + printk(KERN_INFO " http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug_faq.html\n");
> }
> }

http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug_faq.html does not exit anymore, and it looks
like I won't be able to provide a trampoline (the creaweb maintainer has closed
my account...). So use http://www.chorus.com/~poulot/k6bug.html instead.

-- Benoit