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From: Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:29:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136838548.6029.4.camel@dillow.idleaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490601091218m1ff0607h79207cfafe630864@mail.gmail.com>

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 <dave@thedillows.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-09 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-09 20:18 Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities Jesper Juhl
2006-01-09 20:29 ` Dave Dillow [this message]
2006-01-09 22:49   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-09 21:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-09 22:32   ` Edmondo Tommasina
2006-01-09 22:41     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-09 22:49       ` Edmondo Tommasina
2006-01-10  1:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10  2:12   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-10  2:36     ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10  9:29       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-10 20:23         ` 64-bit vs 32-bit userspace/kernel benchmark? Was: " Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-01-10 20:34           ` 64-bit vs 32-bit userspace/kernel benchmark? Was: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfooddities David Lang
2006-01-10 20:50             ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-01-10 20:53               ` 64-bit vs 32-bit userspace/kernel benchmark? Was: Athlon 64 X2cpuinfooddities David Lang
2006-01-10 20:55           ` 64-bit vs 32-bit userspace/kernel benchmark? Was: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities Andi Kleen
2006-01-11  0:15           ` Ken Moffat
2006-02-13  2:53   ` Brandon Low
2006-02-13  3:00     ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-13  9:20     ` Andi Kleen

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