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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>

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