Gentoo.org: Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered

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On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:25, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>=20
> The discussion I saw on the kernel list said
> that linux wouldn't suffer at all.
> The 4MiB pages are never used in the way
> required to trigger this. (non aligned invalidate?)
>=20
> Appearentl geentoo saw it with the NVIDIA kernel drivers,
> and other questionable patches, which may trigger the bug.

Users of nvidia cards may not consider this a non issue if this is
causing their computers to lockup.
>=20
> Haven't saw a comment from Alan Cox on the subject yet
> though, and he will probably clarify the issue.

Hopefully it will turn out to be an overblown problem.

Regards,
	Jim H

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