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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 22:49:50 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
Cc:        Rohit Rakshe <rakshe@cs.umn.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FPU exception, kernel panic
Message-ID:  <20010507224950.A38879@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20010507083206.A511@iv.nn.kiev.ua>; from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:32:06AM %2B0300
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105051400070.16637-100000@mercury.cs.umn.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105061711210.15916-100000@melchizedek.cs.umn.edu> <20010507083206.A511@iv.nn.kiev.ua>

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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:32:06AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>  Sun, May 06, 2001 at 17:14:08, rakshe (Rohit Rakshe) wrote about "Re: FPU exception, kernel panic": 
> 
> (I cannot even guarantree 50% this is the same problem, but...)
> There were some reports in current@ about incorrect usage of i586_bzero()
> which uses FPU for zero-filling. It generated random kernel panics mainly
> on K6-2, also on P5-MMX and similars. You can try to disable such bzero,
> but IMHO it is reasonable to upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE (RELENG_4_3) first.

This problem should not happen in 4.X as it is a side effect of the
SMP-NG stuff in -current.

	David.

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