Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102 | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 11:44:23 +0100 (BST) |
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> >What happens if a "good" CPU is #1, and the "bad" CPU is #2? You will > >get plenty of OOPS if code that works on the #1 blows up on the #2 CPU? > >[Of course, the answer is to switch the CPUs, but.. you know] > > Is it possible to probe both CPUs, then just "and" the > features and "or" the bugs? My apologies if this has already been > suggested.
That probably has about the right results. The best example of this (and thankfully one that doesnt come up in the Intel world) is FPU. Suppose you have a machine with 2 processors and only one has an FPU
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