> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:54:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > - disables PIII serial# on all CPUs (Doug Ledford)
> > > [we might make this configurable in the future for Wine
> > > compatibility]
> >
> > Serve up the serial# from the entropy pool :-)
>
> Presumably they have some sort of check code built in. Best to just force
> it off and tell people to forget they ever heard of it. As long as PIII's
> with serial numbers enabled don't become a significant fraction of the
> entire x86 market, having access to it won't matter.
Actually a simpler solution is to obtain one serial number and give it
back as default.
Vladimir Dergachev
>
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