Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:54:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 fixes |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes: > > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > > >> - "modern 32-bit": PPro and better. Can take CMOV, MMX and TSC for > >> granted. > > > > VIA C3 (Samuel 2/Ezra, 600 - 1000 MHz?, common on VIA EPIA-*: home > > theatres etc) can't CMOV. > > AFAIK they fixed that in newer BIOS with a microcode update. It's > slow, but it works.
Well, more practically, the C3 simply _isn't_ a "modern 32-bit" one. It would fall into the other category of "pre-PPro, but at least better than i386".
Linus
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