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Re: Cyrix bug: freeze in hell, badboy

From: rho () SDF LONESTAR ORG (rho)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:04:16 -0600


On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, John Byrne wrote:


I have done some research into this situation, and I've found that it's mostly
related to the 75Mhz Cyrix Bus.  I recommend that if you are running that
speed, you step it down to 66mhz.



  This exploit froze my CPU up at both 75Mhz and 66Mhz, so I'm back at
75Mhz (it freezes faster :).  I'm running Linux 2.0.37pre5.  Relevant
info:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor: 0
cpu: 686
model: 6x86MX
vendor_id: CyrixInstead
stepping: 2.6, core/bus clock ratio: 2.5x
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug: no
f00f_bug: no
fpu: yes
fpu_exception: yes
cpuid: yes
wp: yes
flags: fpu de tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx
bogomips: 187.60
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.37 (root@turtle) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Thu Feb 4 03:39:25 EST 1999
$


-Jason

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