Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:54:28 +0100 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: make clflush a required feature on x86_64 |
> Simulators can be fixed,
They could, but why? I don't know of a good reason to require CLFLUSH.
> I just verified that Bochs 2.3.0 lacks this CPUID bit whereas the
> current version, 2.3.6, enables CLFLUSH iff SSE2 is enabled. Qemu 0.9.0
> has CLFLUSH. Andi, do you happen to know of any specific simulators
> which are problematic? I would assume any recent version of SimNow is
> up to date.
I don't know of any specific ones that lack CLFLUSH, although Bochs
definitely had similar problems in the past.
-Andi
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