Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities

[Dave Dillow]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 21:18 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Second thing I find slightly odd is the lack of "sse3" in the "flags" list.
> I was under the impression that all AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU's featured SSE3?
> Is it a case of:
>  a) Me being wrong, not all Athlon 64 X2's feature SSE3?
>  b) The CPU actually featuring SSE3 but Linux not taking advantage of it?
>  c) The CPU features SSE3 and it's being utilized, but /proc/cpuinfo
> doesn't show that fact?
>  d) Something else?

Can't help you with the rest, but SSE3 is called "pni" in cpuinfo for
historical reasons, IIRC.
-- 
Dave Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/