From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD64
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1o35g$ii7$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040226133959.GA19254@dingdong.cryptoapps.com
Followup to: <20040226133959.GA19254@dingdong.cryptoapps.com>
By author: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Not that it really matters that much --- but I'm curious to know why
> Intel made this decision?
>
> It seems really dumb to make such differences when Intel is already
> sorely lagging behind their competitor here, I would think given the
> circumstances Intel would try to be as compatible as possible on all
> fronts.
This, and a whole bunch of the other "IA-32e differences", I think
really should be classified as "Intel bugs."
They really have more the flavour of errata than anything else...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 5:32 Intel vs AMD64 Nakajima, Jun
2004-02-26 13:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-26 14:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-26 19:25 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-26 19:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-27 18:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-02-26 19:18 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-26 19:45 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-02-27 14:43 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-03 17:34 ` Pavel Machek
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[not found] ` <403E4681.20603@techsource.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-26 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-27 14:50 ` Timothy Miller
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2004-02-26 4:28 richard.brunner
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