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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:50:34 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: "Robert Hancock" <hancockr@...w.ca>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes (NOPL issue) On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: >>> >>> if so, should only test on VIA chips. >> >> The virtual CPUs are more of a problem. They can't be distinguished from >> the real CPU models they are emulating other than by actually testing. > > Right, hence the first-principles test. In theory we could just execute the > test on ALL CPUs, but I have excluded family < 6 simply because there is a > (very) remote possibility one of them might have used that opcode for > something completely different. oh, is the one that is going to fix booting with VirtualBox? YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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