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 > <snip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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