On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> --- linux-2.4.19-pre3/arch/i386/kernel/head.S.~1~ Tue Feb 26 13:26:56 2002
> +++ linux-2.4.19-pre3/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Thu Mar 14 16:20:57 2002
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
> * we don't need to preserve eflags.
> */
>
> - movl $3,X86 # at least 386
> + movb $3,X86 # at least 386
> pushfl # push EFLAGS
> popl %eax # get EFLAGS
> movl %eax,%ecx # save original EFLAGS
> @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
> andl $0x40000,%eax # check if AC bit changed
> je is386
>
> - movl $4,X86 # at least 486
> + movb $4,X86 # at least 486
> movl %ecx,%eax
> xorl $0x200000,%eax # check ID flag
> pushl %eax
This is broken -- these word stores assure a proper initialization on
pre-CPUID processors.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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