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Re: 2.4.19 on Ultra1 - Will it work?




On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Ian Chilton <mailinglist@ichilton.co.uk>
>    Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:08:57 +0100
>    
>    Is 2.4.19 known to work on a U1?
>    Is it likely to be stable?
> 
> Yes.

A friend told me that the UltraSPARC CPU used in the Ultra1 and Ultra2
machines has a bug. In 64bit mode one (ore more ?) instruction can
deadlock the CPU.

Is this true ?
Which CPU's have this Bug ?
How does Linux handle this ?

Thanks

Martin



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