On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Michal Jaegermann wrote: >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:06:16 -0700 >From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Gentoo.org: Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered > >On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0800, Christopher Keller wrote: >> >> To see if you're vulnerable: >> >> Run "cat /proc/cpuinfo". >> >> cpu family : 6 >> model : 6 >> stepping : 2 >> >> Then you should be safe. > >Hm, interesting. I have around three Athlons with different CPUs which >show up "6,2,2", "6,4,2" and "6,4,4" and I do not recall seeing lockups >of a described kind (once BIOS was set to sane values - all of them VIA >boards). Sounds like not all Athlons are created equal. It only occurs randomly when you are using 3D acceleration actively. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfree86-list@redhat.com General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
