Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 08:54:00 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <8484.962434440@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 01:29:41 %2B0900." <20000701012941S.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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In message <20000701012941S.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, KATO Takenori writ es: >The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some >PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is >very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid < 0x619. > >Following patch automatically disables invlpg when PentiumPro with >cpuid < 0x619 is found. > >Please comment to this patch. I'm against this patch. This is so specific and marginal to a out-of-spec hardware configuration, that it should not be put in the FreeBSD tree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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