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Re: Heads up about YAPB (Yet Another Pentium Bug)

Previously Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I can say that this did lock up the one Intel Pentium Box I tried it on
> but didn't do anything to the AMD or Cyrix systems I've got.

Some more information has become avaiable on this. The bug is known
to affect all Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX systems. Currently there
is no solution to fix this. There are rumours that Pentium's (at least
recent models) allow limited microcode updates which might fix this.
How these updates are made and when they become available are unknown.

Alan Cox reported on BugTraq that this bug also occurs on Cyrix 6x86
systems. He referred to http://www.heise.de/ct/art_ab97/9713030/ for
more information on that one. That could be fixed however by running
"set6x86 -p 0xc1 -s 0x10" according to a post on linux-kernel.

Wichert.

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