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Linux 3.3 rc4

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 21, 2012

“So it’s almost getting to be a habit: yet another -rc release
that is delayed by a couple of days. However, this time I actually
have an excuse. Well, an excuse other than my usual “Sue me, I’m
disorganized and forgot”.

This time the reason for the delay is that we spent several days
chasing down a nasty floating point state corruption that happens
on 32-bit x86 – but only if you have a modern CPU (why are you
using 32-bit kernels?) that supports the AES-NI instructions. And
then you have to enable support for them *and* use a wireless
driver that uses it. The most likely reason for that is using the
mac80211 infrastructure with WPA with AES encryption (ie usually
WPA2)

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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