Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102 | Date | 20 May 1998 03:20:30 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980519091532.14056B-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Yes. This sounds like a buug idea. Right now we have the (euphemism alert) > "bad capability" scattered around in multiple places, it certainly makes > sense to me to make it the same kind of bitmap as the "good capabilities". > > Another thing that would be good would be to have some names for the > capabilities we currently use: using "x & 16" and just magically knowing > that "16" is the bit value for X86_CAP_TSC is kind of obscure. > > Anybody want to do something like this? >
Also, we should take the intersection of all the capabilities in an SMP system.
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