From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bgerst@didntduck.org (Brian Gerst)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel mailing list)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 00:23:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13rr7a-00046v-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A034588.4E06D5FC@didntduck.org> from "Brian Gerst" at Nov 03, 2000 06:08:56 PM
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Q: are any of the things you test present in processors only after we
> > do magic 'cpuid' enable invocations ?
>
> Hmm, after a bit more investigation, it appears that the Cyrix MII
> processors support cmov instructions, even though we currently don't
> compile for that processor with -march=i686. Please ignore this patch
> until I can come up with something better.
I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes that did
not. DaveJ is the guru..
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-03 2:21 Brian Gerst
2000-11-03 12:54 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-03 13:51 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-03 23:08 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-04 0:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-11-04 1:28 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-04 1:01 davej
2000-11-04 1:02 davej
2000-11-04 2:53 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-04 2:07 ` davej
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