On 8 May, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:28:35PM +0200, Heiko Schaefer wrote: >> the thread i found in -current archives suggested that these flags work >> around an amd-specific issue. now you say that a p4-based machine also >> needs them to run stable. > > No, it's the other way around. It's an Intel bug, which also went into AMD > products. > > It is also in the PIII, but because it is so subtle it was never triggered. I think you can add PII to the list as well. I started seeing on my PII box running -stable when I started doing a lot of openoffice builds. Until a fix is implemented, I think we should include these options in GENERIC so as not to afflict our users with these little known and mysterious bogons.Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 08:41:42 UTC
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