From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with oskit-mach
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:49:55 -0400 (EDT)
> I'm pretty sure I already make exactly that check (using the oskit header
> files and functions). That is the official Intel way of checking for the
> feature. The problem people are reporting is with AMD K6 family
> processors, which appear to report that feature bit in cpuid but not
> actually support the feature as I am using it.
That's odd, since FreeBSD and Linux work fine on K6, even though
they don't do special treatment with K6 (as for the PGE bit). So
perhaps setting the bit is not the direct cause.
Okuji
