From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 09:27:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA28895 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from spiv.fnal.gov (spiv.fnal.gov [131.225.124.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA28879 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neswold@spiv.fnal.gov) Received: from localhost (neswold@localhost) by spiv.fnal.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA26430; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:26:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:26:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Richard M. Neswold" Reply-To: neswold@fnal.gov To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Pentium Bug Fix... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Spambot-Food: abuse@localhost postmaster@localhost abuse@fbi.gov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > Oh thats good, just what we need. Hack a damn module binary to figure out > what it is doing. Anybody have any real data on how this might be > repaired? > > > > Richard M. Neswold wrote: > > > > > > > > Apparently Intel has helped BSDI in creating a fix to the Pentium bug: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.1/M310-hangfix I never said it could directly be used in FreeBSD; I thought it was interesting that Intel helped BSDI come up with a fix (before Microsoft.) I also thought my posting would give kernel-knowledgable people another direction in which to solve this problem. I apologize, Jamil, for not posting the exact lines of code needed to fix the problem. Sheesh. Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093