On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > > features : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst others have syscall/sysret. No model seems to have both. The datasheets are somewhat confusing, as it doesn't mention bit 10 at all, just an oversized box for bit 11. > It really should have been marked differently before. Before we weren't mentioning it at all, look.. flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow > The early K6's used extended bit 10 to indicate syscall/sysret > capabality, but this version has some quirks that make it pretty much > unusable. Later K6's use extended bit 11 to indicate syscall/sysret. And where does sysenter/sysexit fit in? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
