From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045AbYETEO6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751836AbYETEOu (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53605 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569AbYETEOt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:38 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification. Message-ID: <20080520041438.GA22594@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , hpa@zytor.com References: <200805200409.m4K49ZuE024343@gelk.kernelslacker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805200409.m4K49ZuE024343@gelk.kernelslacker.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk