From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 16:07:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC64916A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96FE43D39 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:07:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13282 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2004 16:07:36 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Jun 2004 16:07:36 -0000 Received: from 131.106.56.214 (p58.n-nypop02.stsn.com [199.106.89.58]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5TG73r0010966; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:07:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:42:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <1152675CA9EDD71187130002B3CE5ADA090BA9F4@hoexc010.ukrtelecom.net> <20040629125847.GA1144@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040629125847.GA1144@green.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406291142.39995.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: astesin@ukrtelecom.net Subject: Re: Intel updates the list of Prescott P-IV bugs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:07:47 -0000 On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:58 am, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:08:55PM +0300, astesin@ukrtelecom.net wrote: > > http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/specupdt/30235203.pdf > > A particularly interesting item is on page 21: > "A Write to APIC Registers Sometimes May Appear to Have Not Occurred" > > Is this something that needs to be worked around in FreeBSD? It might explain the issue on the dual xeon machine sadly. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org