On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Indeed. Logically, FNINIT should have been extended to initialize it all -
> - it is a security hole that it doesn't initialize MMX properly.
Well, MMX should arguably be initialized with "emms", so the proper
sequence migth be something like
if (sse)
asm("emms");
asm("fninit");
What does emms do to SSE2?
Linus
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