Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:57:36 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <1297.962531856@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:47:05 PDT." <200007020647.XAA33812@john.baldwin.cx>
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In message <200007020647.XAA33812@john.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes: >*ahem* You might want to read the first paragraph as well. It is >for situations where one _can't_ update one's BIOS. I don't see why >making it a tweakable kernel compile time know that is off by >default would be so incredibly bad. We have precedents already for >this type of thing. And yes, in this case, the CPU is not performing >as advertised. So far we have set the limit at hardware being used correctly. Either way, this patch was not the correct way to fix this particular erratum. -- 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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