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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:37:23 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Bryan Liesner <bleez@verizon.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: umtx/libthr SMP fixes.
Message-ID:  <3EDF55A3.D54B8D99@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030604021752.Y69975-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>  <20030605073853.Y453@gravy.homeunix.net> <20030605091745.A566@gravy.homeunix.net>

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Bryan Liesner wrote:
> A non disclosure agreement is a non disclosure agreement, so no crap
> from me.
> 
> I'll give that a try and see if it makes a difference. I don't
> remember off of the top of my head from the previous posts on this
> subject, but does this bug apply to an Athlon XP as well?

The PSE bug applies to all CPU's that support 4M pages; it is
a hardware bug.  The PG_G is a seperate order of operation
problem that gets workked around by disabling it; it is a
software bug.

-- Terry



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