> > Curious, can the instructions required to retrive the serial number be run
> > from userspace?
> >
>
> It is probably controllable by the kernel.
reportedly theres an MSR bit to switch it off. I just dont know the
number, otherwise i'd have included it in the Katmai patch. (Later on we
might make it configurable/detectable/per-process/per-user-switchable once
people start running those ID-'enhanced' applications under Wine.)
-- mingo
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