Re: Ingo's PIII FXSTOR patch (IRQ 13 use/W98)

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:51:59 -0400

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> I'm currently furthering Ingo's original work on this (it was the basis
> for some code that was used in the March 17th PIII Xeon launch event by
> Intel). As it turns out, if you really pay attention to detail, it is

Wow, that's really cool.
Although it is a bit unrelated to what you're just talking about, with Ingo's
patch, if you warmboot from Windows 98 (and I suspect 95 but I don't have
that handy), Linux will complain that the FPU is using the old IRQ 13 reporting
and halt because it gets confused by it.

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