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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:06:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject:   RE: Here's another one for you...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010319170633.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103201153510.40498-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On 20-Mar-01 Bruce Evans wrote:
> 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.

That works, too, but until i586_* are fixed they need to default to off, not to
on. :)  I'm not suggesting committing this, just suggesting a local hack for
testing anyways.

> Bruce

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