Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

[Mike Silbersack]

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



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