Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Christian Volkmann wrote:
> Though, I've *never* seen or even heard of someone with one of those CPUs,
> so whether we need to care is questionable. The mp6 did actually make it
> to manufacture aparently, but I don't think anyone actually bought one.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Technology for a pic of this mythical beast.
>
> Dave
>
> My VIA C7 has the same problem, boots on 486 but not on C3-2 or C7
>
> --
> Hans
I suppose VIA C7 is another candidate for verify_cpu.S
Maybe something like this in assembler might be useful:
if ( ! Intel && ! AMD )
{
andl $~NEED_CMPXCHG64,%edx
}
This would not really harm anything but avoid this problem.
But I just don't know x86 to do this proper.
Christian
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