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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	richard.brunner@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD64
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:50:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403F5921.9080008@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p731xoh61fn.fsf@verdi.suse.de>



Andi Kleen wrote:
> Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:
> 
[snip]

> 
>>Why did Intel decide to do that?
> 
> 
> Most likely they didn't plan to, but it happened by accident 
> and is obscure enough to be not worth fixing. I would agree with
> them that it's not worth fixing.

Yes, I have come to understand that this is merely a case of Intel 
documenting that an "undocumented" instruction doesn't behave in a 
useful or consistent way.

My apologies for delving into this pointless discussion.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-27 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D37200173EA28A5@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <403E4681.20603@techsource.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-26 20:17   ` Intel vs AMD64 Andi Kleen
2004-02-27 14:50     ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-02-26  5:32 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
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-26  4:28 richard.brunner

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