I tried the "long NOP" test application on Virtual PC... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464962#143
and was very surprised to see it return "yes". It appears that the "long NOP" instruction executes correctly inside the test program, but not during boot. This doesn't make sense to me. Because MS VPC seems to be a special case, I suggest that we use this bug (#463606) for MS VPC only, and use bug #464962 for further discussion of this issue on real CPUs. Also, I could be mistaken, but I think that the failure case for the -486 kernel on MS VPC is a completely separate issue. In MS VPC, "cat /proc/cpuinfo" shows information about my real CPU. The only oddity inside MS VPC is that some "flags" that are actually supported by this processor are missing. Here's a transcription: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 1307.580 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme pse tsc msr cx8 sep pge cmov acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 up bogomips : 2679.67 clflush size : 32 -- graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
