From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 27 11:01:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05723 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.apana.org.au (root@saturn.apana.org.au [202.12.90.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05706 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by saturn.apana.org.au id m0vSpEL-0000XgC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.37); Thu, 28 Nov 96 06:01 EST Received: from magpie.apana.org.au (magpie [203.9.107.246]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA07634; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:57:18 +1100 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:52:52 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre X-Sender: andymac@magpie.apana.org.au To: Terje Normann Marthinussen cc: Steve Passe , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: sys/i386/i386 locore.s swtch.s sys/i386/include pmap.h In-Reply-To: <199611270218.DAA06207@slibo.cc.uit.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Terje Normann Marthinussen wrote: {...} > Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step Flags > 0 0x10 BSP, usable 5 2 11 0x03bf > 2 0x10 AP, usable 5 2 11 0x03bf > 3 0x10 AP, usable 5 2 5 0x03bf > 4 0x10 AP, usable 5 2 5 0x03bf ^^^^ {...} Just FYI, I recall seeing a message recently from Linus Torvalds (in a Linux newsgroup) indicating that there was evidence that Stepping 5 (and possibly earlier) P5 CPUs had a problem that affected operation of the Linux kernel. Unfortunately I don't recall the substance of this message :-(. Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia