AMD Athlon flags and /proc/cpuinfo

Markus L. Noga (markus@noga.de)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:12:45 +0100


Hi,

I noticed several Athlon flags were missing from /proc/cpuinfo,
especially mmx_ext and 3dnow_ext. I looked them up in the AMD
documentation. This is the resulting patch:

--- arch/i386/kernel/setup-orig.c Tue Nov 30 11:54:53 1999
+++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Tue Nov 30 12:02:55 1999
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
*
* Added proper L2 cache detection for Coppermine
* Dragan Stancevic <visitor@valinux.com>, October 1999
+ *
+ * Added AMD Athlon specific capability flags to /proc/cpuinfo
+ * Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de>, November 1999
*/

/*
@@ -1410,7 +1413,11 @@
case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
if (c->x86 == 5 && c->x86_model == 6)
x86_cap_flags[10] = "sep";
+ x86_cap_flags[ 6] = "pae";
+ x86_cap_flags[14] = "mca";
x86_cap_flags[16] = "fcmov";
+ x86_cap_flags[22] = "mmx_ext";
+ x86_cap_flags[30] = "3dnow_ext";
x86_cap_flags[31] = "3dnow";
break;

Ciao,

Markus

-- 
"Nieder mit den Zitaten!" -Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de>

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