Re: 2.5 'what to expect' document.

From: Michael Buesch (fsdeveloper@yahoo.de)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 16:08:03 EST

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On Monday 14 April 2003 21:31, Dave Jones wrote:
> Extra tainting.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Running certain AMD processors in SMP boxes is out of spec, and will taint
> the kernel with the 'S' flag. Running 2 Athlon XPs for example may seem to
> work fine, but may also introduce difficult to pin down bugs.
> In time it's likely this tainting will be extended to cover other out of
> spec cases.

Will it be implemented in future to taint the kernel if CPU is overclocked?

-- Regards Michael Buesch. http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft

$ cat /dev/zero > /dev/null /dev/null: That's *not* funny! :(

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