Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features

From: davej@suse.de
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 20:01:06 EST

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Alan Cox wrote..

> > Hmm, after a bit more investigation, it appears that the Cyrix MII
> > processors support cmov instructions, even though we currently don't
> > compile for that processor with -march=i686. Please ignore this patch
> > until I can come up with something better.

> I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes
> that did not.

That was my understanding also.

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