Re: AMD K6 "Bug"

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:55:13 +0200


Hi!

> Non-Confomance. On enteringe System Mamagement Mode (SMM), the
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> This is a serious problem for Linux right?

No. Linux does not use System Managment Mode.

> Assuming SMM has something to do with system calls or interrupts, Or
> would Linux never allow me to load a NULL segment register? In 32bit
> mode, I don't expect to be able to load segment registers but WINE and
> DOSEMU would have to be able to do this right?

Still, it does not matter as linux does not use SMM.

Pavel

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