Subject: Re: new sysctl: hw.cpu_isa
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/15/2000 17:14:40
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:31:20PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> Sounds fine to me.  I suppose if userland wants to know if a given
> instruction is available through emulation, they can always execute it and
> see if they get a SIGILL... *grin*

You don't get any. It's just sloooooow. For an occainal instruction or two
thats fine, but you want to avoid it for heavy usage.

	-is

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