Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:55:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <200007042055.NAA05278@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 00:49:27 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007040045560.67115-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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> > > > 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? That's the general idea. > If so, you'd have to make world before it'd become > active, in which case rebuilding the kernel would be quicker. How so? Especially if it's required for the kernel to work at all, it's already built and waiting on the distribution media so that you can just load-and-go. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the taks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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