Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:53:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <200007040153.SAA00477@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:56:09 %2B0900." <20000702025609D.kato@gneiss.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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> Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > If it's something that can be done as eg. a KLD > > we might want to do that instead, or through some other mechanism for > > handling these sort of CPU quirks. > > It sounds good. If binary-format quriks is supported, we can supply > update modules for new CPU and newly found errata like the update > module for AMD K6-2 CPU of Windows 95. Indeed. This won't help us where we need to modify the actual behaviour of a system component, but when we can perform external corrective actions, it will help a lot. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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