03/05/2012

All that work, vindicated


Notice how the 2.12 release never really happened, and 3.0 came out about 6 months later than usual?  A lot of that delay was caused by a vigorous search for a weird bug.  Multi-threaded buildworlds would crash, seemingly randomly and rarely.  It turns out we have confirmation from AMD that it is, indeed, a CPU hardware bug.

Posted by Justin Sherrill     Categories: Device support, DragonFly     1 Comment
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  1. More on that CPU bug – DragonFly BSD Digest says:
    2012/03/08 at 16:39

    [...] Dillon’s CPU bug hunt has scattered its way across various news sites, some more accurate than others.  He’s [...]

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