Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2
Taral (taral@cyberjunkie.com)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 22:32:14 -0600
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>Intel claim its a one way off switch per boot. C't I think it was published
>some tricks to get around this but they appear to alter the BIOS settings
>and then reboot. Not something that will go unnoticed on a Linux box even
>if it does under that other OS. Phil Karn and Ingo's patches both turn it
>off regardless of BIOS setting
C't got around it by putting the processor into deep sleep mode, then waking it
up. The PSN switch was reset when it woke up.
Not possible under linux from user-mode.
Taral
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