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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:41:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how mmap buffer writes handled?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009211339530.38107-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <200009200807.BAA27583@usr01.primenet.com>

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> > Agree. Might there not be some cleaner way of resolving the F00F bug ?
> > ISTR having looked into this some time back.
> Yeah, there's actually a great fix: replace the faulty chip.

Software, I mean. Personally, I use the K6 chip instead.

> But you did say "[...]when accessing the page for write".  You
> can't access a non-existant page, only an existant one.  8-).

I was speaking from a program's point of view. The program does not know
the page is not present. To get the system's point of view, you would
amend this to "attempting to access".

Marius



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