Re: Pentium DEATH and Cyrix COMA in user-mode

Andrew Kieschnick (andrewk@mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 02:14:51 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Andre Derrick Balsa wrote:

> I am still trying to find the best solution to the new Cyrix bug.
>
> Richard, this would perhaps provide a solution to the Pentium F0 bug
> too. Is there any (documented or undocumented) way to enable some sort
> of Weak Locking on Pentiums?

The pentium bug is caused by the chip executing an invalid opcode - its
really a very different bug from the cyrix bug.... I doubt
enabling/disabling anything is going to help with the pentium bug.

later,
Andrew Kieschnick