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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions suitable for the FAQ
Date: 10 Aug 1995 09:25:02 +0200
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Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
(idle loop using `hlt's)
>if it's not in - i think it should go into FreeBSD - or are there any
>contra's ?
It is, but there are contras: some CPUs are known to have a broken hlt
instruction. Linux checks for this at boot time (and announces it on
the console), and does only use it if the CPU is ok.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)