From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 14:22:11 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 B4D1016A421 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:22:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD4B43D5D for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:21:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.10]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IK10039898IUWF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:21:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IK1007CD98IDFF0@pd2mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:21:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IK100M0N98IS4@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:21:54 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:21:53 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de> To: Frank Behrens Message-id: <42E10101.2030304@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <200507221217.j6MCHMK7002907@pinky.frank-behrens.de> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050714) 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 14:22:11 -0000 Frank Behrens wrote: > Yesterday I made an update (cvsup) from my FreeBSD 5.4 to RELENG_6 - > no big problems so far. > > 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. Yes. This needs to be taken care of at some point -- likely at the same time as some of the debugging options with large performance costs are turned off. Colin Percival