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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features
To: bgerst@didntduck.org (Brian Gerst)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 00:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
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> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Q:      are any of the things you test present in processors only after we
> >         do magic 'cpuid' enable invocations ?
> 
> Hmm, after a bit more investigation, it appears that the Cyrix MII
> processors support cmov instructions, even though we currently don't
> compile for that processor with -march=i686.  Please ignore this patch
> until I can come up with something better.

I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes that did
not. DaveJ is the guru..

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