Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

Matteo Croce
2009-10-03T14:57:01Z

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/2009 02:53 AM, Matteo Croce wrote:
>>
>> Sorry Ingo but if you read my last mail I wrote that the GEODE does
>> supports FCOMI but not NOPL
>> so i don't know if it's worth it, even is I haven't ANY binary in my
>> system with such instruction:
>>
>> # find /lib/tls/i686 /lib/i686 -type f |xargs objdump -d |grep -c nopl
>> 0
>
> Recent gcc/binutils has been known to start to use them.
>
> Either way, it's a user-space-visible difference, so at least the kernel
> will not signal anything else based on existing precedent.

So it can't be applied, right?