From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Sep 25  8:22:33 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B3337B41C
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:22:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (relay2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.1])
	by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3-2) with ESMTP id f8PFMPY27619;
	Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:22:26 +0200 (MEST)
Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1])
	by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3/6) with ESMTP id f8PFMLc27612;
	Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:22:23 +0200 (MEST)
Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.148])
	by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18201;
	Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:22:19 +0200
Received: (from alex@localhost)
	by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8PFMIC02934;
	Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:22:18 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from alex)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:22:17 +0200
From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
	freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ecc on i386
Message-ID: <20010925172217.C2276@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <15279.54029.454089.299807@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20010925012041.CC9613808@overcee.netplex.com.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <20010925012041.CC9613808@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:20:41PM -0700
X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8  A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F
X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de
X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung.
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hackers.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Thus spake Peter Wemm (peter@wemm.org):

> Our NMI / ECC handling really really sucks in FreeBSD. Consider:

[...]

Is there any effort to fix this stuff?

Considering FreeBSD is still known as one of the best server platforms,
this is more important than a multi-threaded kernel or similar stuff,
IMO.

Alex

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message