From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report
Date: 7 Jan 2001 13:42:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93ans3$bd4$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010107201952.C10035@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <E14FKZL-000367-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Followup to: <E14FKZL-000367-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 3DNOW extensions for Cyrix III via rdmsr from 0x80000001. This
> > fails with an exception, that is not handled and thus we oops
> > on boot.
>
> Interesting. Ok. We can set the bit unconditionally it seems.
>
Does it appear in CPUID? If so, we shouldn't need to mess with this
crap at all.
(Could this code have been written by someone who was confused between
MSR 0x80000001 and CPUID 0x80000001?)
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-07 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-07 19:19 [PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report Ingo Oeser
2001-01-07 18:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 21:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-01-07 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
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