Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:38:19 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Intel has said this is the case; however, the German magazine c't has a hacker
> on staff who has managed to turn the serial number back on from userland,
> using only documented features of the processor.
>

Uhm ... big deal. Don't all SPARC and UltraSPARC CPU's have serial numbers
that can be read? I mean I get this from a sysinfo command on a Solaris
box:

...
Host ID is 80816e38
Serial Number is 8482360
Manufacturer is Sun (Sun Microsystems)
System Model is Ultra 1
Main Memory is 252 MB
Virtual Memory is 271 MB
...

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