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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:46:01 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] platform detection at run-time
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>>>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:18:51 -0400, Sane_Purushottam@emc.com said:

  Sane> What is the preferred method to determine the platform at run
  Sane> time ?? Are these values likely to change (after I change my
  Sane> code to handle this) ????

The x86 CPUID instruction will set bit 30 in EDX to indicate that it's
actually an IA-64 processor.

	--david