Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode [FIX???]

Louis Mandelstam (lma@sacc.org.za)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:25:11 +0200 (SAT)


On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Steven S. Dick wrote:

>
> I saw a message somewhere today [bugtraq perhaps?] where someone
> claimed to have found a workaround for the 0xf0 pentium bug.
>
> If I understood it correctly, they locked the illegal instruction trap
> into cpu cache....

..and lost the performance advantage of having an internal cache, no?

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