From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 23 10:52: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20FD537B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124A443E4A for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7NHpImU011541; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:51:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7NHpGRq011540; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:51:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:51:16 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Bosko Milekic , Martin Blapp , Julian Elischer , Don Lewis , sos@freebsd.dk, marks@ripe.net, ktsin@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT Message-ID: <20020823195116.D11382@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3D663D71.C1DBD78E@mindspring.com> <20020823155725.T50084-100000@levais.imp.ch> <20020823095944.A38366@unixdaemons.com> <3D664634.A7F04A50@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D664634.A7F04A50@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:27:00AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:27:00AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Bosko Milekic wrote: > > All Intel chips are fairly buggy. If you don't believe it you should > > just take a look at the erratas on developer.intel.com - although you > > should know that some of this stuff may severly alter your life and, > > specifically, the way you go about debugging problems. Sometimes, > > ignorance is bliss. :-) > > And the best parts are: > > 1) There are bugs they won't tell you about without non-disclosure. Yup... remembers me of the first 486s we racked our brains on. When we finally decided it must be the 486 silicon Intel happily said "Congrats, you found one of our undisclosed bugs". -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message