Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:41:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: marks@ripe.net Cc: hschaefer@fto.de Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) Message-ID: <200305081741.h48HfWM7035818@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20030508153844.GA1262@laptop.6bone.nl>
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On 8 May, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:28:35PM +0200, Heiko Schaefer wrote: >> the thread i found in -current archives suggested that these flags work >> around an amd-specific issue. now you say that a p4-based machine also >> needs them to run stable. > > No, it's the other way around. It's an Intel bug, which also went into AMD > products. > > It is also in the PIII, but because it is so subtle it was never triggered. I think you can add PII to the list as well. I started seeing on my PII box running -stable when I started doing a lot of openoffice builds. Until a fix is implemented, I think we should include these options in GENERIC so as not to afflict our users with these little known and mysterious bogons.
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