From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 23 7:28:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE4F37B405 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDAA43E81 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0207.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.207] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17iFPq-0000kc-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:27:58 -0700 Message-ID: <3D664634.A7F04A50@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:27:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Martin Blapp , Julian Elischer , Don Lewis , sos@freebsd.dk, marks@ripe.net, ktsin@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT References: <3D663D71.C1DBD78E@mindspring.com> <20020823155725.T50084-100000@levais.imp.ch> <20020823095944.A38366@unixdaemons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bosko Milekic wrote: > All Intel chips are fairly buggy. If you don't believe it you should > just take a look at the erratas on developer.intel.com - although you > should know that some of this stuff may severly alter your life and, > specifically, the way you go about debugging problems. Sometimes, > ignorance is bliss. :-) And the best parts are: 1) There are bugs they won't tell you about without non-disclosure. 2) There are bugs they don't know about yet, because they refuse to believe in them without a simple test case, and the problems are often not simple. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message