Re: Have your appendix removed?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Jul 1997 20:54:52 GMT

Followup to: <199707020616.CAA00222@netcom.ca>
By author: "Andrew E. Mileski" <aem@netcom.ca>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Pentium manual Appendix H says contact Intel. No idea where it is supposed
> to be in PPro manuals. I searched all my docs for syscall.
>
> Thanks for the clue.
>

Pentium II data "sheet", Chapter 7. The language is almost verbatim
from the Appendix H verbiage. See http://www.sandpile.org/

By the way, according to the CPUID tech note, Intel calls this
instruction SYSENTER (SYSCALL is AMD's name; may or may not be the same.)

-hpa

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