From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 10:09:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA03684 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA03671 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA07356 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:09:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:09:17 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Bug Fix... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Richard M. Neswold wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > > > Oh thats good, just what we need. Hack a damn module binary to figure out > > what it is doing. Anybody have any real data on how this might be > > repaired? > > > > > > Richard M. Neswold wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Apparently Intel has helped BSDI in creating a fix to the Pentium bug: > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.1/M310-hangfix > > I never said it could directly be used in FreeBSD; I thought it was > interesting that Intel helped BSDI come up with a fix (before Microsoft.) I > also thought my posting would give kernel-knowledgable people another > direction in which to solve this problem. > > I apologize, Jamil, for not posting the exact lines of code needed to fix > the problem. I would be interested in seeing the alledged Linux 'fix'. -- David Cross ACS Consultant