linux-kernel - Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

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Message-ID: <5A4EA724.8051.25FC07E@tim.ml.ipcopper.com>
Date:   Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:13:56 -0800
From:   "Tim Mouraveiko" <tim.ml@...opper.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

> > As I mentioned before, I repeatedly and fully power-cycled the motherboard and reset BIOS
> > and etc. It made no difference. I can see that the processor was not drawing any power. The
> > software code behaved in a similar fashion on other processors, until I fixed it so that it would
> > not kill any more processors.
> > 
> 
> So you have code that killed more than one processor? Save it! We want
> a copy.
> 
> Do you have model numbers of affected CPUs?

Why would you want a copy? Last time I checked bricked CPUs do not work well, even as 
decorations.

I believe the processors were Intel Xeon series. The code would likely run on others too.