From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 13:06:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 D8FBE16A422 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:06:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr (postfix4-2.free.fr [213.228.0.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F25E43DAD for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:05:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2AE323333; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:05:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C1D3407E; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:05:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:05:30 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Frank Behrens Message-ID: <20050722130530.GO39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt in FreeBSD-6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:06:24 -0000 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 >