Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:56:42 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Pentium Pro - sysenter - doublefault |
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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 :/
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