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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 07:46:57 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification.
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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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

I'd really like to avoid divergences between the 32-bit and 64-bit code 
if they can be avoided at this point.  These codes need to be unified, 
not further split.

	-hpa