Also sprach Pawel Krawczyk:
} Has anyone thought of adding a feature of disabling the infamous
} Intel Pentium III processor serial number, which any application
} can get using CPUID instruction? According to CPUID specs [1],
} the PSN can be disabled (part 3.3, disabling PSN) with a single
} CPUID call, until next reboot. This could be configured with
} /proc/sys/kernel entry, writing 1 would disable the PSN. Any
} subsequent calls would be ignored.
}
} [1] http://www.intel.com/design/pentiumiii/applnots/245125.htm
}
Sounds like a grand idea to me.
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|| Bill Wendling wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu
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