Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 18:08:56 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:
> Q: are any of the things you test present in processors only after we
> do magic 'cpuid' enable invocations ?

Hmm, after a bit more investigation, it appears that the Cyrix MII
processors support cmov instructions, even though we currently don't
compile for that processor with -march=i686. Please ignore this patch
until I can come up with something better.

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