From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Various x86 syscall mechanisms
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:51:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485D31A5.80001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bq1uyjgi.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>> There is no reason we couldn't do syscall for 32-bit native, but the
>> only processor that would benefit would be K7, and that's far enough
>
> K6 actually. K7 has sysenter AFAIK. The K6 syscall was also slightly different
> and would need special case code.
Sorry, yes, K6. Even more historic.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-21 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-20 22:00 Various x86 syscall mechanisms Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-20 23:39 ` Roland McGrath
2008-06-27 21:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-27 21:52 ` Roland McGrath
2008-06-28 5:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-30 0:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-06-21 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-21 2:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-21 14:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-21 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-01 12:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
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