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From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14: CR4 not needed to be inspected on the 486 anymore?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:02:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436FA4CB.6020406@rainbow-software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511071313330.27911@chaos.analogic.com>

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>>No, you won't.  #UD and #GP will not (I hesitate to say never, but other
>>than a processor bug, I believe that is correct) reset the processor.
>>And CR4 is not "undocumented", even on 486.
>>
> 
> 
> Yes it is. The i486 Programmer's reference manual documents only
> to CR3.

The manual might be older than the newer 486 CPUs.
And don't forget that not every 486 is Intel. There are at least Cyrix, 
AMD and UMC with interesting Am5x86-P75 and Cx5x86 too.

-- 
Ondrej Zary

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03 16:12 2.6.14: CR4 not needed to be inspected on the 486 anymore? Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-11-03 16:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-03 17:20   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-11-03 23:49     ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-05 17:40       ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-07  9:38         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-11-07 15:44           ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-07 16:37             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-11-07 16:51               ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-07 17:00                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-07 17:32                   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-07 18:17                     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-07 19:02                       ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
2005-11-07 17:11                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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