Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Oct 03 2009 - 10:12:39 EST


On 10/03/2009 02:53 AM, Matteo Croce wrote:
>
> Sorry Ingo but if you read my last mail I wrote that the GEODE does
> supports FCOMI but not NOPL
> so i don't know if it's worth it, even is I haven't ANY binary in my
> system with such instruction:
>
> # find /lib/tls/i686 /lib/i686 -type f |xargs objdump -d |grep -c nopl
> 0

Recent gcc/binutils has been known to start to use them.

Either way, it's a user-space-visible difference, so at least the kernel
will not signal anything else based on existing precedent.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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