> If you want to write the code then go for it.
I'll give it a try.
> In theory you can check cpuid
> availability by toggling a bit in eflags, we do that already
Well, NexGen is broken by design here :/
> Is there another way to detect nexgen and then try cpuid ?
Not that I know off. I would go for something like
* test for 386
* if caught as 386 goto nexgen_or_386?
* test for 486 as usal
nexgen_or_386
* install Illegal instruction handler
* try cpuid (handler gets us out of the nasty case)
* determine which cpu.
* remove handler
Yours THomas
Thomas S. Iversen
zensonic@diku.dk
Dept. of computer science - copenhagen, denmark.
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