Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:18:28 +0000 From: Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> To: Doom Neine <shockwavebsd@yahoo.com> Cc: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: garbage string as cpu identifier Message-ID: <D5F2CA60-7230-11D8-BBA4-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040310002922.2242.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040310002922.2242.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com>
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The patch is not to 'fix' your problem by replacing garbage string with a sane one, but rather to make sure on your Athlon CPU, 'cpuid' does return garbage string expectedly. This could mean a very tricky software initialization bug or even a hardware bug. After confirming fault 'cpuid', I'll try to find the very reason and fix it. -- Bin On 10 Mar 2004, at 00:29, Doom Neine wrote: > thanks a lot, forgot to cc this to the list > so yes, seems simple enough and i've already done what > you asked, but i haven't replaced the current one with > the one i just modified of course, i'll try to rebuild > with the new changes after about 24 hours if no one > else has a better suggestion or gives me a reason not > to do so by then > > thanks > > Nathanael > --- Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using 5.2-current. Maybe the file has >> been updated. The patch is very very simple: >> replace two lines with 6 lines. Is it possible >> for you to apply the patch manually? Line >> number is in the patch file. Thanks. >> >> You must be 'root' to have write permission. >> >> -- Bin >> > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what you=92re looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com >
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