Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

[Mike Silbersack]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

> > Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > >                         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.
> > 
> > It sounds good.  If binary-format quriks is supported, we can supply
> > update modules for new CPU and newly found errata like the update
> > module for AMD K6-2 CPU of Windows 95.
> 
> Indeed.  This won't help us where we need to modify the actual behaviour 
> of a system component, but when we can perform external corrective 
> actions, it will help a lot.

I don't understand the idea here.  Are you going to have a KLD that
patches the kernel?  If so, you'd have to make world before it'd become
active, in which case rebuilding the kernel would be quicker.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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