Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:49:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007040045560.67115-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200007040153.SAA00477@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > If it's something that can be done as eg. a KLD > > > we might want to do that instead, or through some other mechanism for > > > handling these sort of CPU quirks. > > > > It sounds good. If binary-format quriks is supported, we can supply > > update modules for new CPU and newly found errata like the update > > module for AMD K6-2 CPU of Windows 95. > > Indeed. This won't help us where we need to modify the actual behaviour > of a system component, but when we can perform external corrective > actions, it will help a lot. I don't understand the idea here. Are you going to have a KLD that patches the kernel? If so, you'd have to make world before it'd become active, in which case rebuilding the kernel would be quicker. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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