Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:05:30 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Frank Behrens <frank@pinky.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt in FreeBSD-6.0 Message-ID: <20050722130530.GO39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de> References: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de>
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Hi Frank, > Yesterday I made an update (cvsup) from my FreeBSD 5.4 to RELENG_6 - > no big problems so far. > > Then I searched the knob to switch on hyperthreading on my P4. I was > surprised, that it was already active, although I had > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc > in my mind. > > Now I see two possibilities: > > 1. The described problem does not affect the current 6.0/7.0 > codebase. In that case sorry for disturbing you. > > 2. In 6.0/7.0 hyperthreading was left on, because it was a > development branch only. In that case somebody should set the default > switch to off before the 6.0-RELEASE (better before the next BETA > version) and write a note in UPDATING. This is a good point ! :-) I this this was either forgotten or this will happen later in the release process. Thank you. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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