FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt in FreeBSD-6.0

[Jeremie Le Hen]

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
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