Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 07:46:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification. |
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Dave Jones wrote: > There were no 64bit Transmeta CPUs made (and it'd be something of > a surprise if they started any time soon). To the best of my knowledge, > no CPU vendor cloned the 80860000 cpuid space claimed by Transmeta. > By removing this code, we can also eliminate calling cpuid 0x80000007 twice. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
I'd really like to avoid divergences between the 32-bit and 64-bit code if they can be avoided at this point. These codes need to be unified, not further split.
-hpa
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