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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Pentium Pro - sysenter - doublefault
    Mikael Pettersson wrote:
    > > The logic above is exactly what Intel says to do in "IA-32 Intel®
    > > Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set
    > > Reference" on page 3-767. It also says that sysenter was added to the
    > > Pentium II.
    >
    > I double-checked AP-485 (24161823.pdf, the "real" reference to CPUID),
    > and it says (section 3.4) that SEP is unsupported when the signature
    > as a whole is less that 0x633. This means all PPros, and PII Model 3s
    > with steppings less than 3.

    So (double-checking) the pseudo-code in "IA-32: Intel Architecture
    Software Development Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference" is buggy?

    Oh my! Perhaps there are other bugs in that behemoth of a manual, too :/

    -- Jamie
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