My old K6-2 laptop has this problem and the patch seemed to fix the crashes that
I was experiencing under almost minimal load. The down side is that it also
brought me a pccard or DEVFS problem so no network. Of course that could have
been caused by out-of-sync kernel and sources due to all the crashes and the
fact that I had to build the patched kernel on an up-to-date Current desktop and
install it on the laptop, but of course with the laptop KERNCONF.
Has this or another fix been committed?
Thanks,
ed
Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Try this workaround (apply with 'patch -l'):
>
> Here's a better workaround. Revert the previous patch and apply this
> one:
>
> Index: npx.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/npx.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.93
> diff -u -r1.93 npx.c
> --- npx.c 2001/03/19 00:28:04 1.93
> +++ npx.c 2001/03/19 20:28:55
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
> }
> npxinit(__INITIAL_NPXCW__);
>
> -#ifdef I586_CPU
> +#ifdef I586_CPU_DOES_NOT_WORK
> if (cpu_class == CPUCLASS_586 && npx_ex16 && npx_exists &&
> timezero("i586_bzero()", i586_bzero) <
> timezero("bzero()", bzero) * 4 / 5) {
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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