From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Allowing signal handlers to modify SE and BE
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:14:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39EBD214.56C034EA@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2lmvoqimb.fsf@c469597-a.grlnd1.tx.home.com
Corey Minyard wrote:
> Is this really the case? I noticed in the x86 version that setting
> the equivalent of the SE bit is allowed, how does the x86 get away
> with this while the PPC can't?
These bits are optionally supported by processors. As I recall,
the 601 doesn't but I don't know of any others. You may find a
processor where they don't have any effect. I can't think of any
other reason.
-- Dan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-17 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-17 2:58 Allowing signal handlers to modify SE and BE Corey Minyard
2000-10-17 4:14 ` Dan Malek [this message]
2000-10-17 8:25 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-10-17 14:55 ` Corey Minyard
2000-10-23 18:11 ` Frank Rowand
2000-10-18 0:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2000-10-18 1:38 ` Kevin Buettner
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