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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        jmg@funkthat.com
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r271076 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include i386/i386 i386/include pc98/pc98
Message-ID:  <201409041741.s84HfTZd093999@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140904171946.GG82175@funkthat.com>

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On  4 Sep, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Don Lewis wrote this message on Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:22 -0700:
>> On  4 Sep, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 07:37:21 PM Don Lewis wrote:
>> >> On  4 Sep, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> > Author: jhb
>> >> > Date: Thu Sep  4 01:46:06 2014
>> >> > New Revision: 271076
>> >> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271076
>> >> > 
>> >> > Log:
>> >> >   - Move the declaration of has_f00f_hack out of identcpu.c to machdep.c.
>> >> 
>> >> That certainly brings back memories ...
>> > 
>> > Hopefully not too traumatic. :-P
>> 
>> Not really.  I remember the general sense of panic when the
>> vulnerability was announced and then the sense of relief when the
>> workaround was found.  After that, I got lots of reminders because
>> of the boot message.
>> 
>> I've still got the old hardware and am often tempted to see if it will
>> run a recent version of FreeBSD.  I don't think I want to know how long
>> it would take to run buildworld post-clang.
> 
> Almost as old:
> FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r266964:267061M: Wed Jun 11 15:35:27 PDT 2014
>     jmg@carbon.funkthat.com:/usr/obj/i386.i386/usr/src/sys/serbox i386
> FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
> CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (200.46-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x562  Family=0x5  Model=0x6  Stepping=2
>   Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
>   AMD Features=0x400<<b10>>
>  
> Works great... :)
> 
> Though I'll admit I didn't buildworld on this, but another newer 
> machine and then dd'd an image onto a CF card..

How much RAM?  I think my boards are using 16 MB DIMMs.  Some have two
and some have four.  It's even ECC RAM.  I suspect that ZFS is out of
the question, though ...





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