I have produced another version of the CPU detection cleanup patch.
Now I have ported over mtrr.c, and fix a small handful of places I had
missed because of the configurations I had used.
The number one thing I *haven't* yet done with it -- which I'd like to
-- is to integrate the handling of bugs (except the P6 SEP bug) into
the same framework and pretty much eliminate asm/bugs.h, as well as
splitting off the CPU detection into a separate file. However, due to
the very late stage in the game, I wanted to worry about things that
are important for correctness for now.
Please do keep in mind this is not merely a cosmetic change. The old
code was rather shockingly klugy and incorrect in a number of places.
A lot of problems I thought were AMD CPUID bugs were in fact caused by
Linux trying to use the Intel-defined and the AMD-defined flags as
interchangeable (they're not.)
The patch is at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/cpuid-2.4.0-test11-pre2-2.diff
Please give me reports on works/not works with output from
/proc/cpuinfo and the cpuid.c program (in the same directory as the
patch.)
-hpa
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