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Date:      Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:47:02 +0200
From:      Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Downplaying a serious issue
Message-ID:  <86k3b697nt.fsf@shell.gmplib.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140403035800.GR14379@glenbarber.us> (Glen Barber's message of "Wed\, 2 Apr 2014 23\:58\:00 -0400")
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Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> writes:

  It is not a doc problem.
=20=20
  The issue is specific to certain hardware configurations, and unless
  anyone has made any breakthroughs that I am unaware of, the cause is
  still unknown.
=20=20
It happens on:

AMD piledriver running Linux+KVM
AMD piledriver running Linux+Xen
Intel Nehalem running NetBSD+Xen
Intel Sandybridge running NetBSD+Xen
Intel Haswell running NetBSD+Xen
AMD K10 Barcelona running NetBSD+Xen
AMD Bulldozer running NetBSD+Xen

I've seen the laughable claim that this is a "bug in Virtualbox", and now
the major downplay at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/errata.html,
where this is a minor hardware specific problem.

I have not found one piece of PC hardware where it does not happen under
virtualisation.  Please let me know some configuration where FreeBSD/i386
works under a type 1 virtualiser?  Perhaps Bhyve is FreeBSD-compatible?

  Not "weird", but it is specific to certain hardware configurations.
=20=20
  > >It is not specific to virtualbox.
=20=20
  This is the first I am hearing of this problem on non-VirtualBox
  hypervisors.
=20=20
I've mentioned it on FreeBSD lists before.  But after having lost many
hours on reporting the ssh panic for FreeBSD/amd64 and FreeBSD/i386
(amd64/183397), I didn't file a PR for this, also after I saw this was
known and downplayed by a FreeBSD dev.


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