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Date:      Sat, 02 Mar 2002 15:00:48 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        doconnor@gsoft.com.au
Cc:        jerfa@yahoo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pentium and NO_F00F_HACK = kernel panic
Message-ID:  <20020302.150048.126438779.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200202280123.RAA79623@star-one.liberator.dyndns.org> <20020228092726.2B33037B402@hub.freebsd.org> <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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In message: <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
            "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
: On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 20:57, Johann Frisch wrote:
: > > "F00F hack" works around the CPU bug; the NO_F00F_HACK option
: > > disables the workaround.)
: > 
: > I knew that and I have no problem using this option. I am just curious
: > if this kernel behaviour is intented or not?
: 
: No, it shouldn't panic.
: You should have it on as it wouldn't save you very much space..
: Could you get a stack trace (enable crash dumps etc..) and file a PR
: about it? :)

We boot things on a pentium 133 and 266 with NO_F00F_HACK and have as
recently as 4.5-RELEASE minus a few days.

Warner

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