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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:07:14 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Paul A. Howes" <freebsd-current@fair-ware.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Re: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as)
Message-ID:  <20030223090714.GA56077@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20030223085155.GA897@kevad.internal>
References:  <001c01c2da91$782551e0$0200a8c0@howesnet> <20030222191838.GA3818@kevad.internal> <3E5875D2.5040E4F0@mindspring.com> <20030223085155.GA897@kevad.internal>

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> 
> > I thought this was the default in 5.x GENERIC; has someone turned
> > these options off in the default config?!?
> > 
> > I certainly haven't seen changes to locore.s, pmap.c, and machdep.c
> > that would fix the problem by working around the CPU bug.
> 
> Can't say anything for Paul's case, he probably had custom kernel
> then? If I can remember peter@ did the options conditional for CPU
> type, so only P4 owners get'em at boot time. Check the Feb 12 commit
> logs.

He did add code to do it, but disabled it again in the next commit. See
rev 1.386 and 1.387 of sys/i386/i386/pmap.c. Note the "_not"s at the
end of the #ifdefs.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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