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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:15:56 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> I agree; that code can all go.
> 
> What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added
> and which x86-64 has for some time.
> 

I probably need to rebase against your tree.  It makes more sense, anyway.

Either way, I just added a pretty decent framework for testing the CPU
features and barfing if they're missing.

> Also if you ever add x86-64 support it does an additional BIOS
> call to tell the BIOS it is 64bit.

Added.

	-hpa


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