Re: [PATCH] Cleanup SEP errata workaround.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 13:21:32 EST


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:53:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 davej@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > This looks a little simpler, and has the same effect.
>
> Well, "almost same". Let's hope that Intel never releases an old Pentium
> with SEP ;)

8-) FWIW, Intel doc 24161823.pdf (Processor Identification & CPUID
instruction reference) section 3.4 does this check the same way as I did..

But lets worry about Intel being silly if/when they decide
to do so 8-)

Dave

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