If Adam Spiers (and others) do not have this problem, could it be
inconjunction with other hardware in the system?
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc7537.hil.siemens.at) wrote:
> > I think i have found the reason why certain applications (Quake, GCC)
> > crash on certain Pentium MMX processors. I suspect it is a CPU bug. I have
> > a testprogram that detects this bug/condition, and have made a Linux
> > kernel patch that is a first attempt to work the bug around.
>
> miles:adam~$ ./mwbug
> testing bug ... no Pentium MMX 'missed write' bug in this CPU.
> miles:adam~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu : 586
> model : Pentium MMX
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> stepping : 3
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : yes
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid : yes
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
> bogomips : 400.59
>
> It's a 200MHz CPU.
>
> Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
>
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