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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:55:45 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Here's another one for you...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103201153510.40498-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010319123455.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> Hmmm.  An eip of 0 is bad.  This could be just another instance of the bzero
> bug just in another place.  You probably want to change the code that actually
> sets *bzero to i586_bzero (and same for any other ops that use floating point).
> The code in question for this lies in i386/isa/npx.c.  It seems we use the fp
> regs for copyin/copyout and bcopy as well.  I would just change line 458 of
> npx.c to say '#ifdef I586_CPU_XXX' for now as your temporary patch (then you
> don't need to patch pmap_zero_page() anymore.)

There is no need to change anything.  Just disable the fp optimizations
using the npx flags.

Bruce


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