Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-14 Thread Steven Hartland
[quote=FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc] NOTE: For users that are certain that their environment is not affected by this vulnerability, such as single-user systems, Hyper-Threading Technology may be re-enabled by setting the tunable machdep.hyperthreading_allowed. [/quote] - Original Message -

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:06:51PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. It should be in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I don't see it there myself. I got bitten by the same problem. The other guy who gave

5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread kama
I have several boxes that I have upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 and has stopped using the HTT virtal CPU's. This have been going on for a while. the oldest is dated 20050519 and the latest is yesterday. Is there something that I have missed? Been using same configs for 5.3 without any problems.

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 10 June 2005 17:35 +0200 kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several boxes that I have upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 and has stopped using the HTT virtal CPU's. This have been going on for a while. the oldest is dated 20050519 and the latest is yesterday. Is there something that I have

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. Steve / K - Original Message - From: kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several boxes that I have upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 and has stopped using the HTT virtal CPU's. This have been going on for a while. the oldest is dated 20050519 and the

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Steven Hartland wrote: Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. It should be in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I don't see it there myself. I got bitten by the same problem. The other guy who gave ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc provided the right

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:06:51PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. It should be in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I don't see it there myself. It depends on which version you are looking at the source of. In the

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:14:25PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:06:51PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Have a read /usr/src/UPDATING it explains. It should be in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I don't see it there myself. It depends

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Percival
Erik Trulsson wrote: It depends on which version you are looking at the source of. In the release/security branches (RELENG_5_4, etc.) all security patches (like this one) are noted in UPDATING. For the development branches (RELENG_5 , -CURRENT) security patches usually don't get mentioned.

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread kama
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 10 June 2005 17:35 +0200 kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several boxes that I have upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 and has stopped using the HTT virtal CPU's. This have been going on for a while. the oldest is dated 20050519 and the latest