RE: [tip:x86/smap] x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean

From: Yuhong Bao
Date: Fri Nov 23 2012 - 22:49:21 EST


> + * Specifically, cr4 exists if and only if CPUID exists,
> + * which in turn exists if and only if EFLAGS.ID exists.
This may be true for *Intel* 486 CPUs as VME was implemented at the same time as CPUID, but I am not sure that it is true for AMD 486 CPUs.

Yuhong Bao --
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