From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:18:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091112121805.GF1394@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091109212333.GE15159@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Hi!
> > > The Geode NX (which no one has mentioned yet) is an Athlon derived chip.
> >
> > *As far as I know* K6 didn't have NOPL, whereas K7 does.
>
> Which would be mroe indication that the Geode LX may in fact be a K6
> based CPU design. The Geode NX is very clearly an Athlon (K7) and AMD
> has never even tried to hide that. They have never said what the LX is
> based on, other than it isn't based on the GX (fortunately, that thing
> was a buggy piece of crap).
Interesting...geode gx being buggy? I know pentium was famous for the
fdiv bug, but never heard of geode gx problems...
Are they something kernel can work around, or do those chips just have
to be avoided? Anything malicious user can use to crash the system?
Anything malicious user can use to gain extra priviledge?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-12 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-03 2:12 i686 quirk for AMD Geode Matteo Croce
2009-10-03 2:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-03 3:08 ` Matteo Croce
2009-10-03 2:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-03 7:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-03 9:53 ` Matteo Croce
2009-10-03 14:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-03 14:56 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-06 14:59 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-06 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-06 22:18 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-07 0:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-08 17:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-08 17:40 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 18:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-08 18:13 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 19:29 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2009-11-08 19:36 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-08 19:47 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-08 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-10 5:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 6:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 10:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-10 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-10 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 17:24 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-10 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 19:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-10 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 20:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 20:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 21:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 21:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-10 22:42 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-11 5:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-11 6:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-11 6:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-11 7:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-11 9:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-12 2:23 ` Matt Thrailkill
2009-11-12 5:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-12 5:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12 5:40 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-23 19:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-23 19:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-23 20:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-11 10:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-11 8:17 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 22:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-11 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-11 10:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-11 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-10 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-10 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:54 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-11 8:03 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-11 9:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-10 21:21 ` Matt Thrailkill
2009-11-10 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 22:01 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-10 22:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-11 10:54 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-12 0:51 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-11-12 1:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-10 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-08 19:46 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 19:50 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-08 20:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-08 18:42 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-09 20:16 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-09 21:03 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-09 21:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09 21:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-12 12:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-11-13 2:03 ` Andres Salomon
2009-11-13 10:50 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-13 16:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-13 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-13 19:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-13 21:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-16 17:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-17 11:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-17 14:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-17 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-17 17:10 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-17 16:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-17 17:25 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-17 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-17 18:33 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-18 20:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-18 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-18 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-19 0:41 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-13 5:55 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-11-13 16:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-13 13:33 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-11-13 16:25 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-11-08 17:35 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-03 18:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-03 22:04 ` Matteo Croce
2009-10-03 22:32 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-03 22:54 ` Matteo Croce
2009-10-04 7:29 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-04 2:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-04 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-06 15:49 Martin Schleier
2009-11-06 15:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-06 16:42 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-06 16:57 ` Martin Schleier
2009-11-06 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-06 20:06 ` Martin Schleier
[not found] ` <20091106210259.290b281a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
2009-11-06 22:33 ` Martin Schleier
2009-11-06 23:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-07 0:05 ` Martin Schleier
2009-11-07 10:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-07 11:11 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 2:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-08 16:05 ` Andres Salomon
2009-11-08 18:04 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 18:46 ` Andres Salomon
2009-11-08 18:22 ` Matteo Croce
2009-11-08 18:47 ` Andres Salomon
2009-11-10 5:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-11-08 22:10 H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09 0:22 ` Alan Cox
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