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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:26:45 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Adam Migus <adam@migus.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildkernel hang with SCHED_ULE
Message-ID:  <20030814222645.GU1409@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <40495.204.254.155.100.1060897528.squirrel@mail.migus.org>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:45:28PM -0400, Adam Migus wrote:
> I also do testing on a dual Althon and honestly didn't bother to
> research whether they'd have any affect.  Could/would they be
> causing a problem?  I'll recompile without them and try again at any
> rate.

They are old options for enabling hardware cache on machines which have had
a processor upgrade installed, or for enabling Cyrix 5x86 FPU handler options.

They are documented in NOTES. I could find scant documentation on
the FASTFPE bit. http://www.sandpile.org/ia32/ccr.htm#ccr4 suggests that
it was only ever used on the old 486 pin-compatible Cyrix 5x86.

It is possible setting these bits has an undefined effect on your more
recent machines. Try compiling a kernel without them and see if your
scheduler problem manifests itself.

BMS



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