All of the Email I have received from the many people testing this patch (THANKS!!!) has been positive so far with respect to the data corruption problem. There remains one outstanding issue to be resolved prior to committing this and due to the nature of the problem, it's been taking a little longer for me to fix it. The issue has to do with running the patch in combination with APM (I am told that the APM problem actually existed in the past as well but was somehow only apparent when running with DISABLE_PSE). I *think* that the problem has to do with our bios code switching to the page 0 stack which somehow leads to problems when this patch is applied (or when stock -current is used but with DISABLE_PSE). Because I don't have any machine that use the APM code, debugging the problem consists of me changing something, then providing a patch to someone with APM, and then waiting for the results. This is a time-consuming process, but as soon as the problem is addressed, I will commit the changes. Thanks to everyone who has helped test this so far. Regards, -- Bosko Milekic * bmilekic_at_technokratis.com * bmilekic_at_FreeBSD.org TECHNOkRATIS Consulting Services * http://www.technokratis.com/Received on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 05:23:01 UTC
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