Message-Id: <200011152114.WAA06084@cave.bitwizard.nl>
Subject: Re: test11-pre5, Athlon, and Machine Check Architecture
In-Reply-To: <8uuqij$ejs$1@cesium.transmeta.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at "Nov
 15, 2000 12:09:55 pm"
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:14:44 +0100 (MET)
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From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> crash; I don't expect anyone to actually see an #MF exception in real
> life.  I'm trying to get confirmation from AMD that the code should
> be correct even for Athlon.

Peter, 

Would it be an idea to invite people to lower the voltage on their 
CPUs a bit, to try and trigger #MF's?

(I started thinking about slowly overclocking the CPUs, to try and
trigger them, but that's not neccesary. At lower voltages, you'll also
get errors, but shouldn't risk smoking your CPU.... )

				Roger. 

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