Re: [PATCH] Pentium Pro - sysenter - doublefault

[Jamie Lokier]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>  > The logic above is exactly what Intel says to do in "IA-32 Intel®
>  > Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set
>  > Reference" on page 3-767.  It also says that sysenter was added to the
>  > Pentium II.
> 
> I double-checked AP-485 (24161823.pdf, the "real" reference to CPUID),
> and it says (section 3.4) that SEP is unsupported when the signature
> as a whole is less that 0x633. This means all PPros, and PII Model 3s
> with steppings less than 3.

So (double-checking) the pseudo-code in "IA-32: Intel Architecture
Software Development Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference" is buggy?

Oh my!  Perhaps there are other bugs in that behemoth of a manual, too :/

-- Jamie
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