From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Nov 29 10:35:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27429 for smp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27422 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vTXlu-0003w6C; Fri, 29 Nov 96 10:34 PST Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.dk.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id TAA03059; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:36:03 +0100 (MET) To: Peter Wemm cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium CPU steppings In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 1996 02:28:01 +0800." <199611291828.CAA19491@spinner.DIALix.COM> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:36:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3057.849292563@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199611291828.CAA19491@spinner.DIALix.COM>, Peter Wemm writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >Hmm, I wonder if it's safe to test for this at the end of npx.c in the >> >kernel? >> >> Linux can do it, so why couldn't we ? > >Yeah, but have you ever seen it report "yes"? Last I checked, (2.0.twenty >something), the code looked very much like it hardwired the "fdiv bug >present?" result to "no" and I could not find any code in the kernel that yes, they circumvent it, I belive in their compiler :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.