From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 21:54:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B2DC37B5C8 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 70718 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jul 2000 04:54:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jul 2000 04:54:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:54:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box In-Reply-To: <200007042055.NAA05278@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I don't understand the idea here. Are you going to have a KLD that > > patches the kernel? > > That's the general idea. > > > If so, you'd have to make world before it'd become > > active, in which case rebuilding the kernel would be quicker. > > How so? Especially if it's required for the kernel to work at all, it's > already built and waiting on the distribution media so that you can just > load-and-go. I can't think of a single situation where you wouldn't want your processor directly supported in the kernel w/o external KLDs. I'm of the impression that patching KLDs would just become ignored over time, not being properly updated as needed. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message