Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:08:52 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode |
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> > Better to be sure that a NOPL whouldn't SIGILL your program, isn't > > it? > > SIGILL is easier to debug than NOPL mysteriously taking 100x time it > should, sorry.
And a working 686 distribution is a great deal more useful to end users, who outnumber you by a few million to one. It's a very sensible patch, or perhaps you'd prefer we didn't say. And you forget the user "debug" for a Geode + i686 without this will be "it hangs when I try and boot the install CD"
It would probably also be worth having cmov fixups for the VIA C3 as well.
Alan
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