FreeBSD on Montecito: solved...

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Christian Kandeler wrote:

> On Friday 15 February 2008 01:03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>>> Will you incorporate this patch into a snapshot or are you going
>>> to wait with that until the cleaner solution is there?
>>
>> It's in -CURRENT and 7-STABLE and will also be in 7.0-RELEASE.
>
> Thanks. By the way: Do you see any obvious reason why the failure
> would happen on Montecito systems, but not on earlier ones? It's not
> as if those didn't have caches...

True, but it appears that the implementations so far kept the
caches coherent. It could very well be that the later addition
of the fc.i instruction was triggered by Intel having a CPU
that didn't keep the caches coherent...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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