From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 2 14: 1:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A07237B402 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g22M1Ai62607; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:01:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g22M18L59824; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:01:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 15:00:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020302.150048.126438779.imp@village.org> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: jerfa@yahoo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium and NO_F00F_HACK = kernel panic From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <200202280123.RAA79623@star-one.liberator.dyndns.org> <20020228092726.2B33037B402@hub.freebsd.org> <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <1014889885.13562.16.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> "Daniel O'Connor" writes: : 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? :) We boot things on a pentium 133 and 266 with NO_F00F_HACK and have as recently as 4.5-RELEASE minus a few days. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message