Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue May 20 2008 - 00:14:59 EST


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:09:35AM -0400, 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.

argh, after reading this a dozen times, I send it, and then notice a typo.
That should be ' eliminate calling cpuid 0x80000000 twice'

Dave

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