From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262933AbUB0SrZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:47:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262895AbUB0SqY (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:46:24 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:62413 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262944AbUB0SoF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:44:05 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD64 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D37200173EA28A5@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> <20040226133959.GA19254@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1077907440 19016 63.209.29.3 (27 Feb 2004 18:44:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20040226133959.GA19254@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> By author: Chris Wedgwood In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Not that it really matters that much --- but I'm curious to know why > Intel made this decision? > > It seems really dumb to make such differences when Intel is already > sorely lagging behind their competitor here, I would think given the > circumstances Intel would try to be as compatible as possible on all > fronts. This, and a whole bunch of the other "IA-32e differences", I think really should be classified as "Intel bugs." They really have more the flavour of errata than anything else... -hpa