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Tracking Down The AMD "Processor Bug"
tercero writes: "over at the Gentoo Linux website there is an update on the AMD processor bug mentioned here. The sum up is that AMD claims it's not a bug with the Athlon processor, but with the motherboard. More detailed information can be found on this LKML post."
An Anonymous Coward points to a similar explanation at Linux Weekly News.
Update: 01/25 01:25 GMT by T : Daniel Robbins from Gentoo clarifies: "AMD is not
calling this a 'motherboard' issue, it is an interaction between a
feature of the Athlon called 'speculative writes' and the design of the
GART, which is not cache-coherent. It's a 'Athlon/cache coherency/GART'
problem, not a 'motherboard' problem."
2+2=3.9999999999999999999999999999983774
Oh wait that ws Intel.
Hammer of Truth
According to young bald children everywhere, "There is no bug".
In related news, the motherboard manufacturers are quoted as saying, "It's not a bug with the motherboard, but with the Athlon processor."
--SC
You read fiction? I write it! Lemme know what you th
And it's never our program that has your bug.
Meanwhile, we're feverishly fixing your bug in our software.
"Yes sir, we've patched around the OS problem and this should get rid of that nasty bug you were seeing."
It's an optimization for Windows XP!!
ender-iii
Mac users don't have to worry about using the term 'Gigahertz' either.
"Derp de derp."
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows XP on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows XP CD. To my surprise he threw it into my microwave oven and turned it on. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said, "Do not worry, it is unharmed."
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After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said, "Take a close look at it."
To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, an inscription finer than anything I had ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
12413AEB2ED4FA5E6F7D78E78BEDE820945092OF923A40E
'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said in a timid voice.
"No but I can," he said. '"The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:
'One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.'
It is only two lines from a verse long known in System-lore:
'Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass,
Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow,
Nine from dotcoms doomed to die,
One from the Dark Lord Gates on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.'"
...Slashdotters that always point out their favorite OS isn't vulnerable to a particular bug.
My Macintosh isn't affected by this bug due to its PowerPC processor.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
> Wow, Windows and Linux stricken by the same bug. What's the probability of that?
:)
Probably quite good. I imagine if you examine both systems carefully you'll see a BSD license agreement in the system binaries that deal with AGP.