Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
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

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:07 UTC