Re: amd support

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Feb 1999 06:24:21 GMT


Followup to: <199902061135.MAA00747@manjak.knm.org.pl>
By author: Guest <guest@manjak.knm.org.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
>
> does Linux kernel support AMD sysenter stuff ?
>

Intel SYSENTER; AMD SYSCALL. Right now it supports neither, and it is
nontrivial to do so, partly because of stupid design of these
instructions.

-hpa

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