Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities

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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 <[email protected]>

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