From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 17 18:46:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07736 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07716 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02262; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <355F9294.580BB181@dal.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:44:52 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium F00F bug References: <199805172218.IAA03007@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Jeremy wrote: > > There's an interesting article on the F00F bug by Robert Collins > in May Dr Dobbs Journal. He discusses the adverse > impacts of Intel's recommended work-arounds (one of which we use). When the bug was first described there was wide difference of opinion on how it "should" be fixed. A more efficient way of doing it would doubtlessly be a good thing, however given that no one who wanted a better way to solve the problem has coded it yet, I don't anticipate it happening any time soon. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message