[PATCH] error in cpuid usage

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I found a minor error in the cpu detection code for x86 processors. In analogy
with the standard functions the first extended cpuid function returns the
highest supported function number, which is not a number in the region 0 .. 9,
but 0x80000000 and above!
So here is my very small patch:

Hans-Frieder

--- linux-2.2.0-pre6/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Wed Jan 6 22:53:22 1999
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Mon Jan 11 22:33:51 1999
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
*/

cpuid(0x80000000, &n, &dummy, &dummy, &dummy);
- if (n < 4)
+ if (n < 0x80000004)
return 0;
cpuid(0x80000001, &dummy, &dummy, &dummy, &(c->x86_capability));
v = (unsigned int *) c->x86_model_id;

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Hans-Frieder Vogt                 e-mail: vogt@ila.uni-stuttgart.de
Institut f"ur Luftfahrtantriebe   tel   : +49 (711) 685-3522
Universit"at Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 6
D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany


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