a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: a> I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message a> when booting Debian: a> a> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled a> a> Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more a> info?
In fact, you do have a buggy chip. There's some eight-byte instruction sequence (beginning with the two bytes F0 0F) that, if allowed to complete, will cause the system to lock up hard. The Linux kernel has had a patch to fix this for a long time, though; you shouldn't worry about it. You might try 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to see what else Linux has to say about your CPU; if it's sufficiently old, it might have the famed FDIV bug, too. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
