From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:41:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A636E77.3A409B17@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010115223503.16619b-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > I would personally prefer to export the global flags separately from the
> > per-CPU flags. Not only is it more correct, it would help catch these
> > kinds of bugs!!!
>
> That's what I am going to do. Basically to recode cpu_has_* macros to
> use global flags as that's the intuitive name and use a set of different
> names for the SMP bootstrap code to access boot_cpu_data (possibly
> boot_has_* or boot_cpu_has_*).
>
Right, but I'd also like to see the global flags exported explicitly to
/proc/cpuinfo.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-15 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-10 13:31 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w" Udo A. Steinberg
2001-01-10 17:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-01-10 17:07 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-01-10 20:00 ` Jonathan Hudson
2001-01-11 8:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-11 12:54 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <200101110841.AAA01652@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-01-11 10:05 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-01-11 10:11 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 10:31 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-01-11 17:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11 17:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11 17:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11 18:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-12 2:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 3:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-12 4:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 16:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-12 16:42 ` Richard A Nelson
2001-01-12 17:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-12 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 17:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 18:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-12 19:19 ` Laramie Leavitt
2001-01-12 20:39 ` Mark Hahn
2001-01-12 18:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-15 20:33 ` [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc Hugh Dickins
2001-01-15 20:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-15 21:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-15 21:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-01-15 21:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-16 3:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-15 21:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-18 16:39 ` [PATCH] udf writepage UnlockPage Hugh Dickins
2001-01-28 14:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-01-12 4:28 ` 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w" TimO
2001-01-12 6:06 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-01-12 9:47 ` Harold Oga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-11 4:58 Floating point broken between 2.4.0-ac4 and -ac5? junio
2001-01-11 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-11 17:16 ` junio
2001-01-12 3:27 ` Aaron Lehmann
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