Intel updates the list of Prescott P-IV bugs

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 06:21 am, Daniel Lang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Baldwin wrote on Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:42:39AM -0400:
> [..]
>
> > > "A Write to APIC Registers Sometimes May Appear to Have Not Occurred"
> > >
> > > Is this something that needs to be worked around in FreeBSD?
> >
> > It might explain the issue on the dual xeon machine sadly.
>
> [..]
>
> Not sure if you are referring to problem (which is on a dual xeon).
>
> However, I can try to build a UP kernel without SMP or APIC,
> maybe this helps.

I am referring to a specific problem with a specific machine deadlocking as 
discussed in another thread on this list.

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