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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: missing mxcsr initialization
Date: 27 Oct 2000 12:07:58 -0700
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Followup to:  <E13p7te-0004MB-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author:    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > and it appears to work again, until it turns out that Cyrix has the same
> > issue, and then it ends up being the test from hell, where different
> > vendor tests all clash, and it gets increasingly difficult to add a new
> > thing later on sanely. 
> 
> And you end up with mtrr.c
> 

Indeed.

> 
> > No thank you. We'll just require fixed feature flags. Which can be turned
> > on as the features are enabled.
> 
> That seems sensible
> 

I'm working on the patch right now.

	-hpa
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