Re: missing mxcsr initialization

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 14:07:58 EST


Followup to: <E13p7te-0004MB-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > and it appears to work again, until it turns out that Cyrix has the same
> > issue, and then it ends up being the test from hell, where different
> > vendor tests all clash, and it gets increasingly difficult to add a new
> > thing later on sanely.
>
> And you end up with mtrr.c
>

Indeed.

>
> > No thank you. We'll just require fixed feature flags. Which can be turned
> > on as the features are enabled.
>
> That seems sensible
>

I'm working on the patch right now.

        -hpa

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