Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Thu, 21 May 1998 19:20:08 -0600
pavel@elf.ucw.cz said:
> No. You are assuming that bugs are intel-only and that other
> processors can not have same bug. For example 'wp bug' is shared over
> all 386's... And 386 popad bug was shared between intel and amd, also.
> So do not make cpuinfo specific to cpu type: apps do not want to know
> which cpus cannot have bug etc.
Well, I'm sure glad Linux doesn't tell me whether my alpha has the f00f
bug. Or my sparc, for that matter.
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