Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Pentium emulation | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:39:30 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Not really. Except for BSWAP the 386/486/586 user mode stuff is basically > > all down to how you order instructions and how you align them not to new > > instructions > > I thought there was some problem with 386s not write faulting > correctly when you had kernel level privileges? Hence the 386/486 > differences in verify_area.
Thats one reason the above says "user mode stuff". The 486 also has INVD WBINVD and some other system level stuff
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