[9405] in bugtraq
Re: Cyrix bug: freeze in hell, badboy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rho)
Mon Feb 8 04:58:59 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:04:16 -0600
Reply-To: rho <rho@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
From: rho <rho@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
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
