> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, KATO Takenori writ
> es:
> >The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some
> >PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is
> >very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid < 0x619.
> >
> >Following patch automatically disables invlpg when PentiumPro with
> >cpuid < 0x619 is found.
> >
> >Please comment to this patch.
>
> I'm against this patch. This is so specific and marginal to a
> out-of-spec hardware configuration, that it should not be put in
> the FreeBSD tree.
I'd disagree with that. This is just the same as the 0xf00f workaround,
saving only in degree. 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.
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