From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:03:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Itanium 2 flaw detection Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:37:40 +0200, Bruno Cornec said: Bruno> Hello, Concerning the recent problem announced by Intel on Bruno> some I2 chips, do anyone of you have a pointer to a script/C Bruno> Code/whatever code which could give a clear answer for the Bruno> processor on which we are running ? (I didn't had customer Bruno> requests up yo now, but I prefer to be early :-) I don't, but I'd like to have it, too. ;-/ Bruno> Would it be also possible to include it in the result of Bruno> /proc/cpuinfo as it was done for pentium processor bugs some Bruno> time ago: Bruno> [bruno@morley ~/Download]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo [...] fdiv_bug Bruno> : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no [...] That only makes sense for bugs for which the kernel can do something about. That's not the case here because there is no way for the kernel to force the clock frequency down to 800MHz. --david