Re: News of BSDI Pentium Death Fix?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:47:17 +0000 (GMT)

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> over what gets said in public. Have you signed such an NDA? If Red Hat
> would have had such an agreement in place with Intel, then the fix
> would have been released for Linux at the same moment, under the same
> restrictions.

No it would not, because the kernel patch concerned would have to be GPL'd

[Re; L1 cache disable]

> Neither for Intel would this be acceptable.

Don't bet on that.

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