Am 10.09.2012 16:50, schrieb Don Slutz: > On 09/10/12 09:04, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> But question unrelated to this patch is still stand if ia64 is valid >> bit for >> 01.EDX[30]? >> >> > Intel® Processor Identification > and the CPUID Instruction > Application Note 485 > January 2006 > > Order Number: 241618-030 > > ... > > Updated Table 3-5 to include the feature flag definition (EDX[30]) for > IA64 capabilities. > ... > 30 IA64 IA64 Capabilities The processor is a member of the Intel® > Itanium® processor family > and currently operating in IA32 emulation mode. > > --------------- > > Says that it is. Along with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID and > http://www.sandpile.org/x86/cpuid.htm#level_0000_0001h (IA-64)
Don't those semantics contradict the use in qemu-system-x86_64 or qemu-system-i386 rather than qemu-system-ia64 then? We don't model ia64 CPUs here (just like we don't model ppc64 CPUs in ppc) so the flag could never become 1 IIUC. Andreas > But the newest version I found (241618-037, January 2011) is back to > Reserved. > > > -Don Slutz -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
