Re: disabling Intel PSN

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:16:02 -0700

Peter Samuelson writes:
>
> [Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz@ceti.pl>]
> > 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?
>
> Boot any recent 2.3.x kernel on a PIII and watch for the text
> "Pentium-III serial number disabled." Coming soon to a 2.2.15 near
> you, I think the plan is.

Not on my machine (dual PIII). And I'm running 2.3.33.
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 451.026762
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr kni
bogomips : 450.56
[...]

Regards,

Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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