Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:39:13 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500 |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Not really. In particular, I really don't want to add something that >> is even remotely likely to break on other platforms, and a fence >> instruction is relatively recent. > > I wonder if a cpuid would do the trick? Do we still support cpuid-less > processors?
Yes, we do. Worst case, we could bypass it, but I'd like to understand what the real constraint is, here.
-hpa
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