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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 14:26:06 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FP exceptions broken (Re: Interesting bogons from last night's 4.0 snapshot.)
Message-ID:  <199905310426.OAA28293@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> Actually, it works on a Celeron but fails on a P5.  This is caused by the
>> following bug suite (in approximately historical order):
>> 1) IRQ13 interface was broken as designed.
>> 2) Intel F00F bug.
>> 3) Probe for (1) is not very well implemented.  It hacks on the idt[]
>>    global to context switch some IDT entries.
>>...
>Do you record this stuff anywhere?  I think we should have a Bruce's
>nits page so this stuff isn't forgotten.

Usually not.  I can regenerate it on demand :-).

Bruce


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