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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:12:21 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
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On 10/03/2009 02:53 AM, Matteo Croce wrote:
> 
> Sorry Ingo but if you read my last mail I wrote that the GEODE does
> supports FCOMI but not NOPL
> so i don't know if it's worth it, even is I haven't ANY binary in my
> system with such instruction:
> 
> # find /lib/tls/i686 /lib/i686 -type f |xargs objdump -d |grep -c nopl
> 0

Recent gcc/binutils has been known to start to use them.

Either way, it's a user-space-visible difference, so at least the kernel
will not signal anything else based on existing precedent.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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