Re: Ingo's PIII FXSTOR patch [2 Mar] causes problems

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:24:28 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Doug Ledford wrote:

> missing something somewhere, although it's also possible it could be a
> bad gas encoding since I switched to using the actual fxsave and fxrstor
> mnemonics while Ingo used hand crafted byte code).

i've changed this back to bytecode in the latest version (which Kurt is
referring to), exactly due to such issues. (also we should be able to
build a kernel even with older binutils, the new opcodes and the FX
feature are not necesserily connected) I suspect i messed up delayed FPU
state saving on SMP, investigating it.

-- mingo

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