Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Pentium 4 and 2.4/2.5 | Date | Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:17:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It won't fail on other CPU's. The bug is, as far as I can tell, in > get_model_name(), > > cpuid(0x80000001, &dummy, &dummy, &dummy, &(c->x86_capability));
Dave Jones fixed this one - for intel we don't use get_model_name() blindly now. I can see how some earlier 2.2.18pre's would have blown up, but 2.2.17 would (fortunately) be ok.
Thanks
> Notice how we overwrite the x86_capability state with whatever we read > from the extended register 0x80000001. So we overwrite the _real_ > capabilities that we got the right way in head.S.
Yep
Alan
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