Re: 2.1.63 - testing Pentium bug workaround..

Joey Hess (joey@kitenet.net)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:26:14 -0500

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The most exciting change is probably the
> preliminary patch by Ingo Molnar that should work around the by now
> well-known Pentium lock-up bug.

I tried it on my system. The bug was detected, the kernel enabled the
workaround, and the bug was still able to freeze my system solid. :-(
I have a pentium 166 processor.

-- 
see shy jo

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