In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilko Bulte writes:
>> >Maybe make it conditional via an option in the kernel config file?
>> >Off by default of course. Looking at LINT/NOTES I see very obscure things
>> >for Cyrix and Bluelightning CPUs already.
>>
>> But Wilko,
>>
>> Those hacks are because the silicon, when used as directed, has flaws.
>
>OK, I understand that. But it appears to me that this patch allows the use
>of Si that should have had it's problems correct by the BIOS but in fact has
>not (because a corrected BIOS is not available). I'm one of those people
>who prefer a built-in, docuemted, switchable patch/hack over one that needs
>to be hunted down on the Net and applied. Heck, if I wanted to do that I
>would have chosen Linux ;-)
I'm sorry, but I still don't think this patch belongs in FreeBSD.
What guarantee do you have that this is enough to make those CPUs run
reliably anyway ? As far as I know Intel never released the errata
which the microcode updates fixes anyway.
I'm still against.
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