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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 19:23:45 EST


> 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.

I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes that did
not. DaveJ is the guru..

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