On 31 Mar 2018, at 17:57, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > >> the change to provide full 4G of address space for both kernel and >> user on i386 is ready to land. The motivation for the work was to both >> mitigate Meltdown on i386, and to give more breazing space for still >> used 32bit architecture. The patch was tested by Peter Holm, and I am >> satisfied with the code. >> >> If you use i386 with HEAD, I recommend you to apply the patch from >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14633 >> and report any regressions before the commit, not after. Unless >> a significant issue is reported, I plan to commit the change somewhere >> at Wed/Thu next week. >> >> Also I welcome patch comments and reviews. > > It crashes at boot time in getmemsize() unless booted with loader which > I don't want to use.
For me, it at least compiles and boots OK, but I'm one of those crazy people who use the default boot loader. ;) I haven't yet run any performance tests, I'll try building world and a few large ports tomorrow. General operation from the command line does not feel "sluggish" in any way, however. -Dimitry
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