Note the extra 's'. We use "sse" and "sse2", but "ssse3". I assume
it's a typo.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]>
--- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c 2007-02-15 11:21:18.000000000 -0800
+++ arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c-new 2007-05-02 15:31:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
/* Intel-defined (#2) */
"pni", NULL, NULL, "monitor", "ds_cpl", "vmx", "smx", "est",
- "tm2", "ssse3", "cid", NULL, NULL, "cx16", "xtpr", NULL,
+ "tm2", "sse3", "cid", NULL, NULL, "cx16", "xtpr", NULL,
NULL, NULL, "dca", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, "popcnt",
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
--
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:41:22 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Note the extra 's'. We use "sse" and "sse2", but "ssse3". I assume
> it's a typo.
This might not be a typo see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSE3
Regards,
ismail
On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:41:22 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Note the extra 's'. We use "sse" and "sse2", but "ssse3". I assume
> it's a typo.
Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
-Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>
> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
--
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>>
>> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
>
> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
Intel has a nasty habit of renaming things after they are already
deployed in Linux.
-hpa
On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:56:26 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
> >
> > It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
>
> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. Unfortunately
it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it couldn't be
changed anymore.
-Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:56:26 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
>>>
>>> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
>>>
>> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
>> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
>>
>
> PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. Unfortunately
> it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it couldn't be
> changed anymore.
>
Perhaps sse3 could be added as an alias to pni.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
On Thursday 03 May 2007 11:02:31 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:56:26 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> >
> >> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential.
> >>>
> >>> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4
> >>>
> >> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to
> >> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad.
> >>
> >
> > PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. Unfortunately
> > it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it couldn't be
> > changed anymore.
> >
>
> Perhaps sse3 could be added as an alias to pni.
That was considered at some point, but it would be a ugly special case and is
probably not worth it. Usually these flags are Greek for most people anyways
(and something else for the Greek speaking people @)
-Andi
> PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. Unfortunately
> it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it couldn't be
> changed anymore.
... and just to make things more fun, SSE4 is sometimes called Penryn
New Instructions -- PNI all over again.
- R.