Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

From: Gabor Gombas
Date: Sun Oct 04 2009 - 03:31:18 EST


On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:54:03AM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:

> Emulate? I can replace it with two plain NOPs.
> How can I do the "emulation"? trapping SIGILL?

No, emulate it in the kernel, so userspace never notices.

Gabor

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