Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:27:26 -0800 (PST) From: Johann Frisch <jerfa@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium and NO_F00F_HACK = kernel panic Message-ID: <20020228092726.2B33037B402@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20020227213355.EAAC837B405@hub.freebsd.org> <200202280123.RAA79623@star-one.liberator.dyndns.org>
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On 28 Feb 2002, you wrote in internal.freebsd.stable: > If you have a Pentium with the bug, then you don't want this > option. By doing this you've eliminated the code that makes you > unsusceptible to the bug. (Stated another way for clarity, the > "F00F hack" works around the CPU bug; the NO_F00F_HACK option > disables the workaround.) I knew that and I have no problem using this option. I am just curious if this kernel behaviour is intented or not? -- MfG, Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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