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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:36:16 +0100
From:      Robert Drehmel <robert@gizmo.quizbot.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Atomic breakage?
Message-ID:  <3A65D810.6304785A@gizmo.quizbot.org>
References:  <XFMail.010117084010.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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In <XFMail.010117084010.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin wrote:
> Early Pentiums (<= P90) don't support CX8 or so I've heard, which make this
> slightly more complicated, as for a pentium we would have to use a function
> pointer that we setup during probe.  Also, during a SMP boot we would have to
> panic if CX8 wasn't enabled on all CPU's.

P75 (stepping 5): <FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>

cmpxchg8 was actually introduced with the Pentium processors,
as Mr. Wollman already wrote.

-- 
Robert S. F. Drehmel <robert@gizmo.quizbot.org>

Real hackers run -current from punchcards.



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