Re: test11-pre5 breaks vmware

Michel LESPINASSE
2000-11-15T21:20:01Z

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:12:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.

Is it also OK to use the cpuid opcode in userspace ? (after checking
for its presence with the 0x200000 eflags bit)

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Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE
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