Re: Haswell CPU Feature

From: Sean Bruno <sbruno_at_ignoranthack.me>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:34:42 -0800
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On 01/05/15 17:50, Andrey Fesenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Sean Bruno <sbruno_at_ignoranthack.me>
> wrote:
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>> On 01/05/15 16:57, Neel Natu wrote:
>>> Congratulations, you have the ability to debug the Haswell
>>> silicon
>>> 
>> HA!
>> 
>> Is this turned on purposefully (its a feature of the CPU) or is
>> this turned on unintentionally and is a bug in manufacturing?
>> 
>> sean
> 
> My desktop i5-4570 contain this flag too
> 
> Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x306c3  Family=0x6  Model=0x3c
> Stepping=3 
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>
> 
Features2=0x7ffafbff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,<b11>,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
> 
> 
I'm thinking something like this:

Index: sys/x86/x86/identcpu.c
===================================================================
- --- sys/x86/x86/identcpu.c	(revision 276729)
+++ sys/x86/x86/identcpu.c	(working copy)
_at__at_ -781,7 +781,7 _at__at_
 				"\011TM2"	/* Thermal Monitor 2 */
 				"\012SSSE3"	/* SSSE3 */
 				"\013CNXT-ID"	/* L1 context ID available */
- -				"\014<b11>"
+				"\014SDBG"	/* IA32_DEBUG_INTERFACE debug*/
 				"\015FMA"	/* Fused Multiply Add */
 				"\016CX16"	/* CMPXCHG16B Instruction */
 				"\017xTPR"	/* Send Task Priority Messages*/


sean
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