Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:50:34 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 fixes (NOPL issue) |
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: >>> >>> if so, should only test on VIA chips. >> >> The virtual CPUs are more of a problem. They can't be distinguished from >> the real CPU models they are emulating other than by actually testing. > > Right, hence the first-principles test. In theory we could just execute the > test on ALL CPUs, but I have excluded family < 6 simply because there is a > (very) remote possibility one of them might have used that opcode for > something completely different.
oh, is the one that is going to fix booting with VirtualBox?
YH
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