[rescue] Sunshack and Sun stuff to giveaway

Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Oct 29 16:51:15 CDT 2007


On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> der Mouse wrote:
>>> There are also hardware bugs in the older CPUs.  For example, the  
>>> Sun
>>> I sent to you has a CPU bug that will bring the machine down hard
>>> from userland with a 1 instruction assembly program.
>>
>> !!  Where can I find out more?
>
> Indeed, it only affected UltraSPARC1 processors in Ultra 1s and Ultra
> 2s, and is only a problem when:
>  * the CPU is <= 200MHz
>  * the OS is running 64-bit mode
>
> It's one of the reasons Solaris 10 won't run on machines equipped with
> US-1 CPUs.

That's not the Fujitsu bug I was talking about.

But yeah, there is yet another one.

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