Re: disabling Intel PSN

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:39:38 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Bill Wendling wrote:

> } Has anyone thought of adding a feature of disabling the infamous
> } Intel Pentium III processor serial number, which any application
> } can get using CPUID instruction?

> } /proc/sys/kernel entry

> Sounds like a grand idea to me.

Under Linux, the PSN is just disabled. It's not a useful feature,
nor is it useful information, so it is turned off a boot time, not
to be reenabled.

Matthew.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/