Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:26:21 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 initcpu.c Message-ID: <20020212222620.GA19509@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <200202122210.aa14625@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20020212153119.R2904-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <200202122210.aa14625@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:10:19PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > Could you make this a loader tunable? Recompiling a kernel just for a few > > lines of code is a huge pain. > > Since it is a hack for borked BIOS code, I think having it as an > option is probably fine (just like all the other magic CPU options). > Adding the option to GENERIC and reconfiguring only results in the > recompilation of 3/4 files. > > If people feel that it would really be more useful as a tunable, > then I can figure out how that is done. > Is there anyway to detect the borked bios's? like if CPUID > 650(I forget the exactly cpuid) for amd chips, kind of like the pentium F00F bug. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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