[PATCH] Detect i586 and i686 features at run-time

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Aug 19 04:20:00 GMT 2015


On 18 Aug 2015 11:25, H.J. Lu wrote:
> We detect i586 and i686 features at run-time by checking CX8 and CMOV
> CPUID features bits.  We can use these information to select the best
> implementation in ix86 multiarch.

there are i686's w/out cmov.  shouldn't multiarch implementations that use
certain insns be tied to those rather than a big knob like "i686" ?
-mike
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