From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification.
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520041438.GA22594@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805200409.m4K49ZuE024343@gelk.kernelslacker.org>
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:09:35AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> There were no 64bit Transmeta CPUs made (and it'd be something of
> a surprise if they started any time soon). To the best of my knowledge,
> no CPU vendor cloned the 80860000 cpuid space claimed by Transmeta.
> By removing this code, we can also eliminate calling cpuid 0x80000007 twice.
argh, after reading this a dozen times, I send it, and then notice a typo.
That should be ' eliminate calling cpuid 0x80000000 twice'
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 4:09 [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification Dave Jones
2008-05-20 4:14 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-05-20 14:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 15:16 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 17:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 18:06 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 19:18 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-21 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-22 14:04 ` Dave Jones
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