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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:52:53 -0700
From:      "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com>
To:        "Paulo Roberto" <nirv199@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: kernel - pentium FDIV bug corrected?
Message-ID:  <NGBBLCIHCLNJAIGIFFHJGEAECHAA.aburke@nullplusone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020702010136.1563.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Paulo Roberto
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 06:02 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: kernel - pentium FDIV bug corrected?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since I am not a C expert, I will ask those who are...
> 
> Is there an implementation in the FreeBSD kernel to correct the
> pentium fdiv bug? I am interested because I am switching a few
> boxes from Linux (that dmesg tells me that the machine has this
> bug, and it is correcting the problem thru code in the linux
> kernel) to FreeBSD and I need a few of them to run math routines
> in a database.

There is a kernel config option that takes care of it. Also, the
problem affected more than just the pentium.

But check out /sys/i386/conf/LINT for the "NO_F00F_HACK" option.

> 
> TIA
> 
> Paulo Roberto
> 
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