FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt in FreeBSD-6.0
Frank Behrens
frank at pinky.sax.de
Fri Jul 22 12:17:33 GMT 2005
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.
Gruß,
Frank
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