From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 17:38:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19413 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19103 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA06275; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:31:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199809160031.TAA06275@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: more data on "calcru: negative time: -nnn usec" In-Reply-To: <199809152140.OAA26615@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 15, 98 09:40:11 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:31:58 -0500 (CDT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, kls@ohare.chicago.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > APM strikes again. > > > > You cpu was slowed down while you booted the other two times. > > > > The RAM is worse, check out the npx0 flags in LINT and try that. > > > > Poul-Henning > > This problem also occurs on a Cyrix Media-GX with APM disabled. > APM is totally disabled, as is VM86(). > > We know APM is disable because the SMI on Cyrix Media-GX processors > is partially handled through the system BIOS, and the system BIOS > does not have code to handle the SMI requests, and the machine would > reset if the entry points were called. I can confirm that I see this on 2.2.7 on MediaGX, GXi, and GXm procesors.I also have the databooks on these proc's, and can ensure that all APM features are turned off (they are)... Anything anyone want me to specifically probe? Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message