gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Greg,
I don't know of such a program, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to 
write such an animal if one wanted to do so. I imagine it's just an 
instruction or sequence of instructions that you pass to the CPU to instruct 
it to disable this feature. Then as long as the kernel or some other program 
doesn't reenable it, it would stay disabled. You'd probably have to write it 
in asembly though, as the C functions don't provide access to that.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility


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> Hi all.
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> Does anybody know of a processor serial number control utility for
> gnu/linux like what Intel has for windblows? I'm talking about a
> program here that would either enable or disable the cpu showing its
> serial number. Yes, I know some bioses can control that, thus making
> the utility program to do this superfluous, but the bios in this case
> doesn't have that option. I did check freshmeat, but no luck. Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Greg
>
>
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