Re: Clarifications about AMD TLB L3 bug

Robert Myers wrote:
> What's the difference between this and Intel's botched FDIV bug?
> Very, very simple.  At the time of the FDIV bug, x86 was for
> "peecees," and no one cared if Intel made mistakes that IBM (or DEC or
> Sun) never would.  Now they do.

What a nonsense!

You know what is the difference?
There is a workaround for this AMD bug, like there are for Inte's TLB bus
in 
their Core2 Duos. Both AMD & Intel fixes reduce the perofrmance a bit.

You know what is the difference? There was no fix for FDIV bug at all. 
Reducing performance slightly or not. The buggy stuff was hard coded and
not 
bypassable. Intel has learned from that disaster and AMD has too.

>>>2. TRUTH: A fix is available under NDA for RHEL 4 and not otherwise
>>>apparently.
>>
>>>http://techre****t.com/discussions.x/13721
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>>>http://techre****t.com/discussions.x/13724
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>>How secret can it be if it's open-source?
>>
> How is part of SUSE kept proprietary?

Go buy a little clue and read how GPL works. Then you'll know that parts 
which are not derived work of the GPL Linux kernel can be proprietary and 
how those which are dervied work (as such patch has to) can not.

BTW. The patch is public, so the point is moot, you're just spreading 
unfounded FUD.

rgds
\SK