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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486DX4


On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Apparently, the 486DX4 does not correctly serialize a mov to %cr0, so
> we really do need the far jump immediately afterwards.

Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with the commit message.

This is documented behaviour on i386 and i486: instruction decoding is
decoupled from execution, so things that change processor mode have to do
a jump to make sure that %cr0 changes take effect.

I'm not entirely sure that it needs to be a long-jump, btw. I think any
regular branch is sufficient. You obviously *do* need to make the long
jump later (to reload %cs in protected mode), but I'm not sure it's needed
in that place. I forget the exact rules (but they definitely were
documented).

Linus
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