On 1/9/06, Dave Dillow <[email protected]> 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.
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