Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751605AbWAIWte (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:49:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751611AbWAIWte (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:49:34 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:19290 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751605AbWAIWtd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:49:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TkrHZuVEIFV+5bV9te79wPSxo8zy1okZzA97f93rIvw7qxHSpTxK3mZFZovrQOvPsSVAspo911kBj/Eg6NJsd7zX+kn1m/O7OwNrO5+6IGZh/eSNZeCe6Xq4SCjr6cAl1thVna1GYX5CGXDp7MtpnBWBlYDwOaweyXN+UZvDVh4= Message-ID: <9a8748490601091449o23b18e52u76727caeab74747b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:49:32 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Dave Dillow Subject: Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities Cc: LKML List In-Reply-To: <1136838548.6029.4.camel@dillow.idleaire.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490601091218m1ff0607h79207cfafe630864@mail.gmail.com> <1136838548.6029.4.camel@dillow.idleaire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 26 On 1/9/06, Dave Dillow wrote: > 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. Ahh yes, PNI as in Prescot New Instructions - right? Hmm, someone really ought to rename that to sse3 these days. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/