Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 22:29:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: chris@pennasoft.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) Message-ID: <3EBC8E40.69A472BC@mindspring.com> References: <20030508142234.GA1359@laptop.6bone.nl> <3EBB3C67.7F2E5CD8@mindspring.com> <200305091258.51855.chris@pennasoft.com>
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Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Friday 09 May 2003 01:28, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Don wrote: > > > > it's not really appropriate to -current any more. Bosko's is > > > > preferred, because it doesn't disclose the nature of the bug, > > > > > > How, exactly, is this preferred? :) > > > > It avoids a lawsuit. > > Who would be the plaintiff, and what would be the basis of the > lawsuit? Intel would be the plaintiff. > And, why aren't Bosko's patches in the tree? I don't know. I do know that they increased the minimum memory requirements by 4M (part of Bosko's approach to a fix requires linking the kernel with a base address aligned on a 4M boundary). -- Terry
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