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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:35:09 +0100
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r205444 - head/sys/i386/i386
Message-ID:  <3a142e751003231335x58179a0aqcbd6ea328c04409d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100323200253.GF2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <201003221152.o2MBqs9M012769@svn.freebsd.org> <201003220849.36246.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100322152334.GA24534@sandvine.com> <20100323192131.GF32142@hoeg.nl> <20100323200253.GF2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On 3/23/10, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
>> * Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > I was just about to follow up with a comment to that effect.  We do want
>> > it to become a panic, but I would prefer to hold off until we address
>> > the known issue with padlock(4).
>>
>> I have seen this message appear when using the ndisulator as well. How
>> are we going to solve it in this case? Could the ndisulator be extended
>> to prepare a FPU context using kib's new API?
>
> I looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa489566.aspx
> after someone mentioned ndisulator. It seems that windows requires
> that i386 drivers carefully use braces for use of FPU, while amd64
> code allowed to use it freely. That suggests that windows clears
> TS on kernel mode entry or driver calls, that seems to be too
> wastefull.
>
> I would very much appreciate the help with changing both ndis and
> padlock to use fpu_kern_enter/leave KPI, since I do not use them.
> I need some time to polish the patch before.
>

I saw fpudna only on amd64, but I never managed to get ndisulator
fully working on amd64 (at least with broadcom card/driver).



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