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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:42:11 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 initcpu.c 
Message-ID:  <200202122342.g1CNgBD00411@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:32:13 GMT." <20020212153119.R2904-100000@patrocles.silby.com> 

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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, David Malone wrote:
> 
> > dwmalone    2002/02/12 13:13:02 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/conf             options.i386 options.pc98
> >     sys/i386/conf        NOTES
> >     sys/i386/i386        initcpu.c
> >   Log:
> >   Add an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which attempts to enable the SSE
> >   feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to enable
> >   it.
> 
> Could you make this a loader tunable?  Recompiling a kernel just for a few
> lines of code is a huge pain.

This should never have been an option in the first place, it should Just 
Do It.

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