Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:54:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007042351160.70521-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200007042055.NAA05278@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I don't understand the idea here. Are you going to have a KLD that > > patches the kernel? > > That's the general idea. > > > If so, you'd have to make world before it'd become > > active, in which case rebuilding the kernel would be quicker. > > How so? Especially if it's required for the kernel to work at all, it's > already built and waiting on the distribution media so that you can just > load-and-go. I can't think of a single situation where you wouldn't want your processor directly supported in the kernel w/o external KLDs. I'm of the impression that patching KLDs would just become ignored over time, not being properly updated as needed. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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