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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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