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Date:      28 Feb 2002 21:21:24 +1130
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Johann Frisch <jerfa@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pentium and NO_F00F_HACK = kernel panic
Message-ID:  <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020228092726.2B33037B402@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20020227213355.EAAC837B405@hub.freebsd.org> <200202280123.RAA79623@star-one.liberator.dyndns.org>  <20020228092726.2B33037B402@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 20:57, Johann Frisch wrote:
> > "F00F hack" works around the CPU bug; the NO_F00F_HACK option
> > disables the workaround.)
> 
> I knew that and I have no problem using this option. I am just curious
> if this kernel behaviour is intented or not?

No, it shouldn't panic.
You should have it on as it wouldn't save you very much space..
Could you get a stack trace (enable crash dumps etc..) and file a PR
about it? :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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