Re: New Cyrix patch for 2.0.33

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 26 May 1998 15:34:20 +0100 (GMT/BST)

On Mon, 25 May 1998, Phil's Kernel Account wrote:

> This WILL work. Without a doubt. However, a little messy, IMHO. I think
> that I'd rather do something like this...
>
> 1. if has cpuid
> do cpuid
> else
> probe 486/386
> if !386 && flags are preserved across divison
> check for BX @ 0x22/0x23
> if !BX
> enable cpuid
> goto 1
> end if
> end if
>
> Much happier and cleaner, IMHO. :)

Nah. If the cpuid failed you can't have a Pentium II so you can't
have a BX chip set. Don't waste your time - you can bet your life
that if/when Intel release a socket 7 BX-ish chip set or Cyrix
release a slot 2 CPU they will have changed things in ways you
haven't predicted :-).

Mike

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