Re: [coLinux-devel] question about thread

[George P B. <geo...@gm...>]

On 10/10/05, Nuno Lucas <nt...@gm...> wrote:
> On 10/10/05, George P Boutwell <geo...@gm...> wrote:
> >   Anyone can think of a reason not to make this work the opposite
> > direction?  ie. Make it use SMP by default and turn it off if the
> > above is set to N instead?  I've now got an Intel Pentium HT machine
> > at work and I've had a little time to test it on there and it appears
> > to work great.  I haven't heard any one with SMP support whose enabled
> > it report back it doesn't work.
>
> I also don't recall any problems, so it's fine by me.

Thanks for the feedback.

> >   On a side note, my machine at work is one that requires the BOOT.INI
> > /noexecute=3Dalwaysoff setting or I get an Window BSOD...  I guess we
> > have a test machine to maybe squash that bug for good.  Anyone got any
> > ideas where to go bug hunting for this problem, or is this one that we
> > are just going to have to live with?
>
> I dare to notice a common pattern: there seems to always be with one of t=
he
> newer 32 bit Intel CPUs with the NX bit. We made the fix when there were =
no
> 32bits intel CPUs with that feature available yet (only AMD64 and the Xeo=
n
> CPUs, iirc).

You might be right there.  I'm sure the machine I had problems on is
an 'brand new' Intel 32-bit Processor...  Unfortunately it's at work
and I'm at home at the time of this writting so I'll have to dig into
the details of what processor (exactly) when I get back to work
tomorrow.

> Maybe Intel has some different way of doing things?

Probably life wouldn't be interesting if it wasn't the case... ;)

--
George