Intel updates the list of Prescott P-IV bugs

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 29 09:07:47 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:58 am, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:08:55PM +0300, astesin at ukrtelecom.net wrote:
> > http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/specupdt/30235203.pdf
>
> A particularly interesting item is on page 21:
> "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.

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