On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> It reboots. Thats actually why the current 2.3.x code crashes if you have
> a very early Cyrix/TI 486DLC
Is it possible to install a unknown instruction handler? Is it worth it?
>
> > Any reasons not to make a patch which tries to detect a nexgen using CPUID?
>
> If the chip indicates CPUID is supported we will try CPUID
Problem is though that nexgens with CPUID instruction ain't telling it to
the world using the CPUID feature flag :-} Not very smart - I agree,
but workaround exists. Any reasons not to work around this bug? Would it
cause something else not to work, or?
Yours THomas
Thomas S. Iversen
zensonic@diku.dk
Dept. of computer science - copenhagen, denmark.
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