From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 15 18: 6:13 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id E546037B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:06:11 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Lars Eggert Cc: Jim Pirzyk , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/include atomic.h Message-ID: <20021015180611.A15941@FreeBSD.org> References: <200210141933.g9EJXCCp079728@repoman.freebsd.org> <3DACBB41.9040709@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DACBB41.9040709@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:05:05PM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Lars Eggert [ Data: 2002-10-15 ] [ Subjecte: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/include atomic.h ] > Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > pirzyk 2002/10/14 12:33:12 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/conf options.i386 > > sys/i386/conf NOTES > > sys/i386/include atomic.h > > Log: > > Add a knob to turn on and off the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 systems. > > This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs. > > Setting this option in an SMP kernel makes it die a horrible death > during boot. Yes. And? -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message