Hi Frank, > Yesterday I made an update (cvsup) from my FreeBSD 5.4 to RELENG_6 - > no big problems so far. > > Then I searched the knob to switch on hyperthreading on my P4. I was > surprised, that it was already active, although I had > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc > in my mind. > > Now I see two possibilities: > > 1. The described problem does not affect the current 6.0/7.0 > codebase. In that case sorry for disturbing you. > > 2. In 6.0/7.0 hyperthreading was left on, because it was a > development branch only. In that case somebody should set the default > switch to off before the 6.0-RELEASE (better before the next BETA > version) and write a note in UPDATING. This is a good point ! :-) I this this was either forgotten or this will happen later in the release process. Thank you. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >Received on Fri Jul 22 2005 - 11:06:23 UTC
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