From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 12 14:26:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB5637B421; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 18FC9319BE4; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:26:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:26:21 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: David Malone Cc: Mike Silbersack , 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> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: David Malone , Mike Silbersack , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020212153119.R2904-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <200202122210.aa14625@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202122210.aa14625@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message