From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 18:59:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg136-135.ricochet.net [204.179.136.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D5D37C1EA for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00477; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007040153.SAA00477@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: KATO Takenori Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:56:09 +0900." <20000702025609D.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:53:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > If it's something that can be done as eg. a KLD > > we might want to do that instead, or through some other mechanism for > > handling these sort of CPU quirks. > > It sounds good. If binary-format quriks is supported, we can supply > update modules for new CPU and newly found errata like the update > module for AMD K6-2 CPU of Windows 95. Indeed. This won't help us where we need to modify the actual behaviour of a system component, but when we can perform external corrective actions, it will help a lot. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message