Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 09:21:15 EST


On Tue 2008-07-01 13:29:01, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Not really. In particular, I really don't want to add something that is
>> even remotely likely to break on other platforms, and a fence instruction
>> is relatively recent.
>
> I wonder if a cpuid would do the trick? Do we still support cpuid-less
> processors?

We still support 386~~, AFAICT.
Pavel
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