Re: [PATCH] Re: Discrepancies between /proc/cpuinfo and Dave J's

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:28:58 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Am I paranoid?

Probably :)
The Intel CPUs with PSN I've seen simply drop 1 level.
What other CPUs support this feature? ISTR Transmeta had it?
Do they behave the same?

> I feel nervous about "c->cpuid_level--" inferring
> what we expect to happen to it, would prefer to check it (below).
> + c->cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0);

No biggie, either solution is fine with me.

regards,

Dave.

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